Migrant Laborers

This 1985 book surveys the literature on labor migration in east, west and southern Africa and interprets it from a political economy perspective.

List of contents

1. Migration and development; 2. Migrants and the rural economy; 3. Migration and the African household; 4. Entering and leaving the work force; 5. Migrants at the work place; 6. Women as migrants and workers; 7. Migrants, protest and the future; Notes; Index.

Summary

First published in 1985, Migrant Laborers addresses the controversies as to the origins of migrancy and its effects on the rural economy, emphasizing the differences in the response of various African pre-capitalist societies to wage labor, and the regional variations in the effects on the rural economy and on the division of labor within the rural household.

Product details

• Authors: Sharon Stichter, Stichter Sharon
• Publisher: Cambridge Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.12.1985
• EAN: 9780521272131
• ISBN: 978-0-521-27213-1
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 13 mm
• Weight: 230 g
• Illustrations: Worked examples or Exercises
• Series: African Society Today; African Society Today
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy, Political Economy