Download or read book The Workers of African Trade written by Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch and published by SAGE Publications, Incorporated. This book was released on 1985-07 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The movement of workers involved in long-distance trade in Africa constitutes one of the most ancient and most massive forms of labour migration in African history. Focusing primarily on the latter half of the nineteenth century, the contributors to this volume examine various aspects of long-distance trade: including the role of the family, wage employment, slavery, and the entrepreneur; the institutions that mobilized and organized the work force; and the workers' remuneration and the accumulation of surplus.
Download or read book The Workers of African Trade written by Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch and published by . This book was released on with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The movement of workers involved in long-distance trade in Africa constitutes one of the most ancient and most massive forms of labour migration in African history. Focusing primarily on the latter half of the nineteenth century, the contributors to this volume examine various aspects of long-distance trade: the roles of the family, wage employment, slavery, and the entrepreneur; the institutions that mobilized and organized the work force; and the workers' remuneration and the accumulation of surplus. This collection is especially concerned with the possible relationship between western commercial capitalism and the emergence of a 'proto-proletariat', with the extent to which such trade may have promoted individualism, and with the implications of this social change for the emergence of class consciousness that was revealed through the struggle over terms of employment.
Download or read book Outsourcing African Labor written by Jeffrey Gunn and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-07-19 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the late eighteenth century, the ever-increasing British need for local labour in West Africa based on malarial, climatic, and manpower concerns led to a willingness of the British and Kru (West African labourers from Liberia) to experiment with free wage labour contracts. The Kru’s familiarity with European trade on the Kru Coast (modern Liberia) from at least the sixteenth century played a fundamental role in their decision to expand their wage earning opportunities under contract with the British. The establishment of Freetown in 1792 enabled the Kru to engage in systematized work for British merchants, ship captains, and naval officers. Kru workers increased their migration to Freetown establishing what appears to be their first permanent labouring community beyond their homeland on the Kru Coast. Their community in Freetown known as Krutown provided a readily available labour pool and ensured their regular employment on board British commercial ships and Royal Navy vessels circumnavigating the Atlantic and beyond. In the process, the Kru established a network of Krutowns and community settlements in many Atlantic ports including Cape Coast, Fernando Po, Ascension Island, Cape of Good Hope, and in the British Caribbean in Demerara and Port of Spain. Outsourcing African Labour in the Nineteenth Century: Kru Migratory Workers in Global Ports, Estates and Battlefields structures the fragmented history of Kru workers into a coherent global framework. The migration of Kru workers in the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans, in commercial and military contexts represents a movement of free wage labour that transformed the Kru Coast into a homeland that nurtured diasporas and staffed a vast network of workplaces. As the Kru formed permanent and transient working communities around the Atlantic and in the British Caribbean, they underwent several phases of social, political, and economic innovation, which ultimately overcame a decline in employment in their homeland on the Kru Coast by the end of the nineteenth century by increasing employment in their diaspora. There were unique features of the Kru migrant labour force that characterized all phases of its expansion. The migration was virtually entirely male, and at a time when slavery was widespread and the slave trade was subjected to the abolition campaign of the British Navy, Kru workers were free with an expertise in manning seaborne craft and porterage. Kru carried letters from previous captains as testimonies of their reliability and work ethic or they worked under the supervision of experienced workers who effectively served as references for employment. They worked for contractual periods of between six months and five years for which they were paid wages. The Kru thereby stand out as an anomaly in the history of Atlantic trade when compared with the much larger diasporas of enslaved Africans.
Download or read book African Trade Unions written by Ioan Davies and published by Harmondsworth, Penguin. This book was released on 1966 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The specific characteristics of trade unions in Africa which result from economic development and the changing social structure. Employment policy of the former colonial labour administrations of the UK, France and particular characteristics of these trade unions are created by their relation to the respective governments. References. Bibliography pp. 233 to 244. Dictionary.
Download or read book General Labour History of Africa written by Stefano Bellucci and published by James Currey. This book was released on 2019-05-17 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive and authoritative history of work and labour in Africa; a key text for all working on African Studies and Labour History worldwide.
Download or read book Appeal to All African Trade Union Organisations Amd to All African Workers written by All-African Trade Union Federation and published by . This book was released on with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Development of an African Working Class written by Richard Sandbrook and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-08-18 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1975, this volume reassesses the historical, political and social role of African workers and examines the extent to which a working class has formed and undertaken collective action in various parts of Africa. The book is based on primary historical sources or first-hand experiences. The contributors are linked by their belief in the legitimacy of action by organised workers to create a more just society.
Download or read book Trailblazers written by Heinz Deutschland and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Mills of God written by David Duncan and published by Witwatersrand University Press Publications. This book was released on 1995 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the period in South African history between the wars, when the modern system of labour control was developed. It includes chapters on the regulation of working conditions, health and welfare, wage regulation and the state's efforts to control African trade unions.
Download or read book The Workers Movement of the Countries of Asia and Africa written by Akhmed Akhmedovich Iskenderov and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Industrial and Commercial Workers Union of Africa written by P. L. Wickins and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1978 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monograph on African trade unionism in South Africa R - focusses on the historical development of the industrial and commercial workers trade union of Africa and discusses trade union recognition, the problems of trade unionization of unskilled workers, especially rural area migrants, and racial discrimination against skilled workers in employment and in trade union rights. Maps, references and photographs.
Download or read book President Ahmed S kou Tour Speaking to the Colloquium on the History of the African Trade Union Movement written by Ahmed Sékou Touré and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Decolonization and African Society written by Frederick Cooper and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-08-28 with total page 702 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This detailed and authoritative volume changes our conceptions of 'imperial' and 'African' history. Frederick Cooper gathers a vast range of archival sources in French and English to achieve a truly comparative study of colonial policy toward the recruitment, control, and institutionalization of African labor forces from the mid 1930s, when the labor question was first posed, to the late 1950s, when decolonization was well under way. Professor Cooper explores colonial conceptions of the African worker and shows how African trade union and political leaders used the new language of social change to claim equality and a share of power. This helped to persuade European officials that the 'modern' Africa they imagined was unaffordable. Britain and France could not reshape African society. As they left the continent, the question was how they had affected the ways in which Africans could reorganize society themselves.
Download or read book Imperialism Or Solidarity written by Roger Southall and published by University of Cape Town Press (ZA). This book was released on 1995 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyses foreign trade union activities in Southern Africa from 1970 onwards.
Download or read book Conflict and Control in an African Trade Union written by David R. Smock and published by Stanford, Calif. : Hoover Institution Press. This book was released on 1969 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Case study of leadership in the Nigerian coal miners trade union as an example of centralization of power and resulting conflicts in labour relations - includes historical aspects of working conditions in coal mining, structural and administrative aspects of the union, labour disputes and grievance handling, employees attitudes and management attitudes toward the union, etc. Bibliography pp. 165 to 170.
Download or read book Andrew Mtagwaba Kailembo written by G. M. Gona and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Organization of African Trade Union Unity written by James Dennis Akumu and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
