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NATIVE labour, more especially after the great expansion of the mining industry, was for long one of the more insistent problems of the southern half of the African continent. Many causes combined to restrict the supply of labour, and while in time every effort was made to ensure that conditions should be as favourable to the native labourer as circumstances allowed, the authorities were even more exercised as to the means whereby the numbers seeking employment could be maintained at a figure adequate to the requirements of agriculture, mining and industry generally. After the failure of imported Chinese labour to meet this need in the early years of the present century, it became necessary for the labour-recruiting agencies to go farther and farther afield, until natives were being brought from districts very far removed from the provinces in which they were to be employed.
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Native Labour from Nyasaland. Nature 137, 921–923 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/137921a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/137921a0