Work and poverty in the gold-bearing mountains of the Bahian hinterland
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https://doi.org/10.5007/1984-9222.2009v1n1p125Keywords:
work, gold prospecting, povertyAbstract
This paper examines the work conditions in the gold mines of the Jacobina mountains in the state of Bahia, pointing out the risks and dangers to which prospectors, who ventured to those mountains in the search for that metal in the decades of 1930 and 1940, were exposed. Those risks were the collapses, cave-ins, in the infectious diseases that spread quickly, stimulated by the terrible hygiene conditions and for the high concentration of people in those places. Besides, the risks coming from the handling of chemical products, as mercury, affected not only the prospectors, but the whole population of the city, because the indiscriminate use of that product polluted the rivers that supplied the municipal district of Jacobina.
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