Rethinking labour in Africa, past and present
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Rethinking labour in Africa, past and present
Routledge, 2011
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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This book offers a broad range of perspectives on major transformations in the research of labor in Africa contexts over the last twenty years. This is a groundbreaking work by social scientists and historians; adopting innovative paradigms in the study of African laborers, working classes and economies, it moves away from stringent Marxist perspectives towards more localized and fluid conceptions of materiality and productivity. Against the backdrop of increasing mobility of labor and capital, the authors demonstrate the need for a simultaneous consideration of local, national and transnational contexts. The collection of essays provides multiple perspectives on how African workers have negotiated changes and exploited opportunities in increasingly globalized workplaces, while at the same time confronting the impact of global capitalist expansion on local settings in Africa.
This book was previously published as a Special Issue of African Identities.
Table of Contents
1. Rethinking Labour in Africa, Past and Present 2. Dialogical subjectivities for hard times: expanding political and ethical imaginaries of subaltern and elite Batswana women 3. Work discipline, discipline in Tunisia: complex and ambiguous relations 4. Migration for 'white man's work': an empirical rebuttal to Marxist Theory 5. Casting aluminium cooking pots: labour, migration and artisan production in West Africa's informal sector, 1945-2005 6. Transnationalism and nationalism in the Nigerian Seamen's Union 7. What goes around, comes around: rotating credit associations among Ethiopian women in Israel 8. Park pictures: on the work of photography in Johannesburg
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