"We were all slaves" : African miners, culture, and resistance at the Enugu government colliery
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"We were all slaves" : African miners, culture, and resistance at the Enugu government colliery
（Social history of Africa）
Heinemann , James Currey , David Philip, c2003
- : Heinemann paper
- : Heinemann cloth
- : James Currey cloth
- : James Currey paper
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [331]-350) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
A story of the miners who profoundly shaped the process of production, and the rhythms and culture of work and resistance at the Enugu colliery in Nigeria. The author draws comparisons between the experiences of the Enugu miners and their counterparts in Scotland, Wales and northern England.
Table of Contents
- African workers and European theories
- Udi district on the eve of conquest - slavery, power and resistance, circa 1909
- "chiefs", slaves, coercive labour and ritual resistance - the contested birth of the colonial state, Udi 1909-1914
- glimpses of an African work ethic - work, power and race at the coal face, 1914-1920
- the postwar conjecture - agitation, urbanization and the roots of military tradition, 1920-1929
- the colliery on the eve of World War II - industrial elaboration and worker resistance under economic collapse, 1930-1938
- the politics of "productivity", unionization and the war, 1938-1945
- the Iva Valley masacre of 1949 - trade union struggles in the Cold War, 1945-1950.
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