Mining finance and human capital in early Kimberley

South Africa's City of Diamonds: Mineworkers and Monopoly Capitalism in Kimberley, 1867–1895 by William H. Worger Yale University Press, New Haven (Connecticut), and London, 1987. 330 pp. including maps, illustrations and bibliography. $35,00.

Capital and Labour on the Kimberley Diamond‐Fields, 1871–1890 by Robert Vicat Turrell Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1987. 297 pp. including maps, illustrations, appendices and bibliography. £25,00.