CiNii Books - General labour history of Africa : workers, employers and governments, 20th-21st centuries

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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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 Perez-Nino Part IV Varieties of Work Domestic Work - Deborah Fahy Bryceson Military and Pollice - Michelle R. Moyd and Joel 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

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