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Informationen zum Autor G. St. J Orde-Browne Zusammenfassung Originally published in 1933, this book is a comparative study of the labour market in the early part of the twentieth century in different parts of Africa. It focusses particularly on the impact of Western influence, both on an industrial and sociological level, in the period after the First World War. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part 1 1. Intoductory 2. Primitive African Society 3 and 4. Foreign Influences 5. The Fall of Slavery 6. The Incentive to Wage-Earning 7. Forced Labour 8. Alternatives to Wage-Earning 9. Methods of Recruiting 10. Conditions of Recruiting 11. The Contract 12. The Value of the Contract 13. The Identification of the Worker 14. Penal Sanctions 15. The Workman and the Law 16. Living Conditions and Their Effect 17. Moral Effects of Wage-Earning 18. Women and Child Workers 19. The Wage-Earner and the Land 20. Labour and International Relations 21. Some Aspects of Investigation Part 2. Summary of Legislation. List of African Countries Dealt with in the following summary of legislation. The Belgian Congo. British Colonies, Protectorates and Mandated Territories. French Colonies. Italian Somaliland and Eritrea. Liberia. Portuguese Colonies. Spanish Colonies. Part 3: International Draft Conventions
