General Labour History of Africa (eBook, PDF)

Workers, Employers and Governments, 20th-21st Centuries
Redaktion: Bellucci, Stefano; Eckert, Andreas

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.



Co-published with the International Labour Organization on the centenary of its founding in 1919, the General Labour History of Africa is a landmark in the study of labour history. It brings, for the first time, an African perspective within a global context to the study of labour and labour relations. The volume analyses key developments in the 20th century, such as the emergence of free wage labour; the transformation in labour relations; the role of capital and employers; labour agency and movements; the growing diversity of formal and informal or precarious labour; the meaning of work; and the impact of gender and age on the workplace.
The contributors - eminent historians, anthropologists and social scientists from Africa, Europe and the United States - examine African labour in the context of labour and social issues worldwide: mobility and colonial and postcolonial migration, forced labour, security, the growth of entrepreneurial labour, the informal sector and self-employment, and the impact of trade unionism, welfare and state relations. The book discusses key sectors such as mining, agriculture, industry, transport, domestic work, and sport, tourism and entertainment, as well as the international dimension and the history and impact of the International Labour Organization itself. This authoritative and comprehensive work will be an invaluableresource for historians of labour, social relations and African history.

In association with the ILO Regional Office for Africa

Stefano Bellucci is senior researcher at the International Institute of SocialHistory, Amsterdam, and lecturer in African History and Economy at Leiden University, the Netherlands; Andreas Eckert is Director of the International Research Centre for Work and the Human Life Cycle in Global History and professor of African history at Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 782
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Mai 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781787445550
• Artikelnr.: 63918502

Autorenporträt

Stefano Bellucci, Andreas Eckert

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Cynthia Samuel
Olonjuwon, ILO Assistant Director General and Regional Director for Africa Introduction: The "Labour Question" in Africanist Historiography
Stefano Bellucci and Andreas Eckert Part I: Free and Unfree Labour Wage labour
Andreas Eckert Precarious and Informal Labour
Franco Barchiesi Forced Labour
Babacar Fall and Richard L. Roberts Part II: Key Sectors Agriculture
Julia Tischler Mining
Carolyn A. Brown Industry and Manufacturing
Patrick Neveling Transport
Stefano Bellucci Part III: International Dimensions and Mobility The International Labour Organization
Luca Puddu and Daniel Roger Maul and Hakeem Ibikunle Tijani Labour Migration
Helena Pérez
Niño Part IV Varieties of Work Domestic Work
Deborah Fahy Bryceson Military and Pollice
Michelle R. Moyd and Joël Glasman Crime and Illegal Work
Laurent Fourchard White
Collar Workers
Dmitri van den Bersselaar Entertainment, Sport and Tourism
Andreas Admasie Part V: Entrepreneurs and Self
Employment Capitalists and Labour in Africa
Gareth Austin Entrepreneurial Labour
Sara S. Berry Professionals and Executives
Rory Pilossof Part VI: The State, Unions and Welfare Labour and the State
Akua O. Britwum and Leyla Dakhli Trade Unions
Bill Freund Social Welfare
Ben Scully and Rana Jawad Mutualism and Cooperative Work
Samuel A. Nyanchoga Part VII: Conclusions The Labour Question in Africa and the World
Frederick Cooper