British mine capital initially preferred color-blind labor markets but capitulated to color bars

Evidence

British capital, local Randlords, and colonial administrators thus sought initially to maximize the labor pool more or less no matter color so as to undercut wage costs of both skilled and unskilled white labor. Boer political representatives, by contrast, sought to ensure job color bars out of a deep entanglement of self-interest and ideological investment. But capital’s representatives soon relented, not only to the pressures of white workers intent on securing self-interest but also to the renewed reassertion of the discourse of inherent inferiority. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1464

Categorization

• QUESTION: Worth chasing: when exactly did white-worker pressure override capital’s stated preference, and what specific strikes or threats forced the reversal?
• XREF: Recalls the general pattern that capitalism’s profit logic is race-agnostic but capitulates to racialized worker organization, paralleling Milgrom’s account of institutions emerging to solve interest conflicts. — connects to: Capital abandoned color-blind hiring under white worker pressure — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1464