The Night TrainsPub Date : 2021-03-01DOI: 10.1093/OSO/9780197568651.003.0007
C. V. Onselen
{"title":"Masculinity and Madness","authors":"C. V. Onselen","doi":"10.1093/OSO/9780197568651.003.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/OSO/9780197568651.003.0007","url":null,"abstract":"Black workers, intent on maintaining a masculine identity, were housed in mine ‘compounds’ which, in terms of design and layout and the number of workers they accommodated, were more akin to prisons than mass male working-class housing. Sexual behaviour there often had more in common with that found in prisons than among the general working population. Underground, miners were exposed to the dreaded—often fatal—lung-lacerating disease of silicosis that led to other illnesses such as pneumonia or tuberculosis. Extreme mental and physical conditions contributed to the excessive use of alcohol and cannabis by miners which, in turn, contributed to mental illness. The ‘down’ trains, as the chapter explains, were provided with a special compartment for transporting mentally disturbed miners home.","PeriodicalId":336236,"journal":{"name":"The Night Trains","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129437685","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The Night TrainsPub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780197568651.003.0011
C. van Onselen
{"title":"Conclusion","authors":"C. van Onselen","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780197568651.003.0011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197568651.003.0011","url":null,"abstract":"Black Mozambicans consistently resisted the oppressive labour regime that used steam locomotives and the rail network to deliver them as indentured labourers to the South African mining industry. Some used the system to transport them to the best labour markets and then deserted to find other, better employment. The railways formed an integral part of a highly coercive system of industrial exploitation and, in that, differed from other historical situations where transport systems were used to further genocidal agendas. Yet, so deeply traumatic were the rail journeys to and from the mines that they became incorporated into the modern witchcraft beliefs of Africans which speak of trains without tracks and the recruitment of workers for forced labour in a zombie workforce. The scarring caused by the Night Trains is still with us, whether in songs, such as Stimela, or in witchcraft beliefs that reflect death through over-work at sub-subsistence wages.","PeriodicalId":336236,"journal":{"name":"The Night Trains","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115736531","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The Night TrainsPub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780197568651.003.0008
C. van Onselen
{"title":"The Down Passage","authors":"C. van Onselen","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780197568651.003.0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197568651.003.0008","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter explores how the ‘down’ trains carried large numbers of the walking wounded, the terminally ill, the maimed and the weak, as well as ‘healthy’ migrants with cash savings who were being repatriated to Mozambique. The down train had ‘hospital coaches’ but no doctors or, for many decades, trained medical orderlies. On occasion, the corpses of migrants were robbed of their wages. The bodies of those who died on the journey home were taken off the train and subjected to post-mortems with body parts sometimes removed for the purpose of medical research.","PeriodicalId":336236,"journal":{"name":"The Night Trains","volume":"55 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129617936","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The Night TrainsPub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780197568651.003.0012
C. van Onselen
{"title":"Afterword","authors":"C. van Onselen","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780197568651.003.0012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197568651.003.0012","url":null,"abstract":"In the afterword, the author offers a personal account of how, when and where he, as a schoolboy, first became aware of the plight of African migrant mineworkers and how the experience followed him into young adulthood. It offers an understanding of why he came to write the book about the Night Trains.","PeriodicalId":336236,"journal":{"name":"The Night Trains","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134034745","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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