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WHEN the British Association visited South Africa in 1905, the country was still suffering from the effects of the Boer War. Of the many problems which had demanded solution, the most acute had been that of labour. In the efforts to restore social and economic equilibrium, the mining industry had made demands upon the native labour supply which it had been unable to meet, and after strenuous opposition and an acrimonious exchange of opinion from opposing camps, not only in South Africa but also in Great Britain, a solution had been sought by the introduction of Chinese labour
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The Economic Position of Backward Peoples. Nature 124, 469–470 (1929). https://doi.org/10.1038/124469a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/124469a0