"How Chinese migration to the world's goldfields upended global power and economics and forged modern conceptions of race. In roughly five decades, between 1848 and 1899, more gold was removed from the earth than had been mined in the 3,000 preceding years. But friction between Chinese and white...

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Authors' Note -- 1 Introduction: States, Markets, and Inequality -- 2 South African Society on the Eve of Apartheid -- 3 Social Change and Income Inequality Under Apartheid -- 4 Apartheid as a Distributional Regime -- 5 The Rise of Unemployment Under...