Experience of Economic Redistribution

Clarence Tshitereke was born in Sibasa, South Africa - 1975. He studied politics at the Universities of Cape Town and Stellenbosch and completed a Ph.D. with Queen's University at Kingston in Canada.

• Setting the Scene: An Introduction 1. Theoretical Approaches: Modes of Regulation and Accumulation 2. Chamber of Mines and Labor: The Political Economy of South Africa’s Gold Mining Industry, 1886-1987 3. Evaluating GEAR: Labor and Employment Trends in the Chamber Affiliated Gold of Mines 4. From RDP to GEAR: The Political Economy of South Africa’s Transition 5. GEAR, Gold and Labor: The Politics of Redistribution Conclusions: South Africa’s Transition in Retrospect

'This admirable study is the first major analysis of the post-apartheid gold mining industry. Tshitereke skillfully shows how an industry in terminal decline continues to exercise an inordinate influence in South Africa.' - Dr. Jonathan Crush, Director Southern African Research Center, Queen's University at Kingston, Ontario ,Canada