The African Worker

This 1988 book introduces the reader to the literature and the main theoretical and social issues that have arisen from the African working class.

List of contents

Preface; 1. The historiography of labour; 2. The material basis for an African working class; 3. Culture, community and class; 4. Wage labour, non-wage labour and the total sphere of production; 5. Trade unions, workers and the state; 6. Labour in an industrialised society: the South African case; 7. Labour, the development process and social change; 8. A guide to the literature on labour in Africa; Bibliography; Index.

Summary

This 1988 book introduces the reader to the literature on the African working class and the main theoretical and social issues that have arisen from it. The history of the emergence of a wage-earning class is outlined and its various cultural, social and political forms are discussed.

Product details

• Authors: Bill Freund
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.06.2011
• EAN: 9780521314916
• ISBN: 978-0-521-31491-6
• No. of pages: 210
• Dimensions: 127 mm x 203 mm x 13 mm
• Weight: 258 g
• Series: European Monographs in Social
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories