Decolonization and African society : the labor question in French and British Africa /
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| Formato: | Libro |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, England ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
1996.
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| Colección: | African studies
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.