Decolonization and African Society - The Labor Question in French and British Africa

Zusammenfassung This authoritative volume gathers a vast range of material to assess colonial policy toward African labor. It shows how African trade union and political leaders began to claim equality! and demonstrates the failure of Britain and France to reshape African society in their European image. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction; Part I. The Dangers of Expansion and the Dilemmas of Reform: 2. The labor question unposed; 3. Reforming imperialism, 1935-40; 4. Forced labor, strike movements, and the idea of development, 1940-45; Part II. Imperial Fantasies and Colonial Crises: 5. Imperial plans; 6. Crises; Part III. The Imagining of a Working Class: 7. The systematic approach: the French code du Travail; 8. Family wages and industrial relations in British Africa; 9. Internationalists, intellectuals, and the labor question; Part IV. Devolving Power and Abdicating Responsibility: 10. The burden of declining empire; 11. Delinking colony and metropole: French Africa in the 1950s; Conclusion: 12. The wages of modernity and the price of sovereignty.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Frederick Cooper, Frederick (University of Michigan Cooper, Cooper Frederick
• Con la collaborazione di: David Anderson (Editore)
• Editore: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 28.08.1996
• EAN: 9780521566001
• ISBN: 978-0-521-56600-1
• Pagine: 700
• Serie: Cambridge Cultural Social Stud
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Scienze politiche > Scienze politiche e cittadinanza attiva; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia