The race for resources : continuing struggles over minerals and fuels / Michael Tanzer.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Monthly Review Press, c1980.Description: 285 pages : tables ; 21 cmISBN:- 0853455406
- 0853455414 (pbk.)
- 338.2/09/04
- HD 9506 .A2 T36 1980
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BOOKS | Niebyl-Proctor Marxist Library General Stacks | HD 9506.A2 T36 1980 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Not For Loan | NPML19100036 |
Includes selected bibliography (pages. 275-276) and index.
Part I: The general setting 1. An overview of the industry -- 2. Supply and demand -- 3. Basic mineral economics -- 4. Corporate strategies: how a mining company works -- 5. Government strategies: how the developed countries operate -- 6. Labor: the human side -- Part II: Case studies 7. Oil and natural gas -- 8. Goal and uranium -- 9. Copper -- 10. Bauxite -- 11. Iron ore -- 12. Nickel -- 13. AMAX: A leading U.S. multimetal company -- 14. Anglo American: a leading South African multimetal company -- Part III: Prospects for the future 15. Technology: the key to the mineral industry -- 16. "Safe" countries and internal colonies -- 17. The socialist countries: the Soviet Union and China -- 18. The third world: issues and strategies -- 19. Minerals and fuels in a rational world
"This first-of-its-kind book examines the actual nature of the widely proclaimed "mineral crisis" for both fuels and non-fuel minerals, placing it within the historical context of the international capitalist system..... Tanzer provides the reader with a clear analysis, in nontechnical language, of the main features of the world mineral situation. While various problems are looked at in their historical context, the emphasis is on the current picture and on likely future developments, and on problems of great current interest, such as whether or not the world is 'running out' of mineral resources, or the prospects for new 'OPEC-like' producers' associations in the mineral area." - dust jacket
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