GOLD FIELDS: A CENTENARY PORTRAIT BY PAUL JOHNSON

GOLD FIELDS: A CENTENARY PORTRAIT BY PAUL JOHNSON. HARDCOVER, FULLY INTACT DUST JACKET, NO INSCRIPTIONS OR NAMES, 256 PAGES, 1987, FIRST EDITION, IN EXCELLENT CONDITION.

"Consolidated Gold Fields is a mining finance company creating wealth and jobs across the world. In this dramatic portrait of a remarkable organisation, Paul Johnson, the historian and political commentator, has written a fascinating study of a unique venture. This is by no means a conventional company history but rather an impression of a vigorous, living organism at one particular moment in its existence. By examining Gold Fields' role and purpose Paul Johnson illuminates important, even crucial, questions for industrial society today. How, for example, is industry financed? How does such a company as Gold Fields decide where to invest and in what? How are commercial decisions influenced by political, economic and social considerations? Above all, Gold Fields is concerned with people. Its assets are of value only because of its employees. Mining, not just of gold, but of every metal and mineral, is a dangerous, back-breaking and often heartbreaking business. Persuading the earth to give forth of its riches requires men and women of exceptional ability, integrity and initiative. It is the people who make Gold Fields the company it is today." - Dust jacket