South Africa's Labor Empire
Author : Jonathan Crush
Publisher : David Philip Publishers
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 25,35 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Apartheid
ISBN :
Author : Jonathan Crush
Publisher : David Philip Publishers
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 25,35 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Apartheid
ISBN :
Author : Daniel E. Bender
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 35,86 MB
Release : 2015-07-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1479871257
Millions of laborers, from the Philippines to the Caribbean, performed the work of the United States empire. Forging a global economy connecting the tropics to the industrial center, workers harvested sugar, cleaned hotel rooms, provided sexual favors, and filled military ranks. Placing working men and women at the center of the long history of the U.S. empire, these essays offer new stories of empire that intersect with the “grand narratives” of diplomatic affairs at the national and international levels. Missile defense, Cold War showdowns, development politics, military combat, tourism, and banana economics share something in common—they all have labor histories. This collection challenges historians to consider the labor that formed, worked, confronted, and rendered the U.S. empire visible. The U.S. empire is a project of global labor mobilization, coercive management, military presence, and forced cultural encounter. Together, the essays in this volume recognize the United States as a global imperial player whose systems of labor mobilization and migration stretched from Central America to West Africa to the United States itself. Workers are also the key actors in this volume. Their stories are multi-vocal, as workers sometimes defied the U.S. empire’s rhetoric of civilization, peace, and stability and at other times navigated its networks or benefited from its profits. Their experiences reveal the gulf between the American ‘denial of empire’ and the lived practice of management, resource exploitation, and military exigency. When historians place labor and working people at the center, empire appears as a central dynamic of U.S. history.
Author : David Yudelman
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 39,85 MB
Release : 1983-02-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
Historical study of state intervention, industrial management, labour relations and the emergence of a labour movement among gold miners in South Africa R from 1902 to 1939 - covers working conditions, strikes, racial segregation in employment and trade unionization against a background of political leadership esp. That of Jan Smuts, the growing economic role of the mines, and conflict of political ideology; gives overview of trends in the 1970s, including wage rates of black and White miners. Bibliography, statistical tables.
Author : Alessandro Stanziani
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 26,81 MB
Release : 2019-06-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9783319889306
After the abolition of slavery in the Indian Ocean and Africa, the world of labor remained unequal, exploitative, and violent, straddling a fine line between freedom and unfreedom. This book explains why. Unseating the Atlantic paradigm of bondage and drawing from a rich array of colonial, estate, plantation and judicial archives, Alessandro Stanziani investigates the evolution of labor relationships on the Indian subcontinent, the Indian Ocean and Africa, with case studies on Assam, the Mascarene Islands and the French Congo. He finds surprising relationships between African and Indian abolition movements and European labor practices, inviting readers to think in terms of trans-oceanic connections rather than simple oppositions. Above all, he considers how the meaning and practices of freedom in the colonial world differed profoundly from those in the mainland. Arguing for a multi-centered view of imperial dynamics, Labor on the Fringes of Empire is a pioneering global history of nineteenth-century labor.
Author : Stefano Bellucci
Publisher : James Currey
Page : 784 pages
File Size : 42,56 MB
Release : 2019-05-17
Category : History
ISBN : 1847012183
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.
Author : Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 41,29 MB
Release : 2013-06-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 085745952X
Global imperial designs, which have been in place since conquest by western powers, did not suddenly evaporate after decolonization. Global coloniality as a leitmotif of the empire became the order of the day, with its invisible technologies of subjugation continuing to reproduce Africa’s subaltern position, a position characterized by perceived deficits ranging from a lack of civilization, a lack of writing and a lack of history to a lack of development, a lack of human rights and a lack of democracy. The author’s sharply critical perspective reveals how this epistemology of alterity has kept Africa ensnared within colonial matrices of power, serving to justify external interventions in African affairs, including the interference with liberation struggles and disregard for African positions. Evaluating the quality of African responses and available options, the author opens up a new horizon that includes cognitive justice and new humanism.
Author : Emily S. Rosenberg
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 1168 pages
File Size : 41,7 MB
Release : 2012-10-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0674047214
Between 1870 and 1945, advances in communication and transportation simultaneously expanded and shrank the world. In five interpretive essays, A World Connecting goes beyond nations, empires, and world wars to capture the era’s defining feature: the profound and disruptive shift toward an ever more rapidly integrating world.
Author : R. Bright
Publisher : Springer
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 47,69 MB
Release : 2013-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1137316578
This book explores the decision of the British Empire to import Chinese labour to southern Africa despite the already tense racial situation in the region. It enables a clearer understanding of racial and political developments in southern Africa during the reconstruction period and places localised issues within a wider historiography.
Author : Robin Cohen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 19,87 MB
Release : 1995-11-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780521444057
This extensive survey of migration in the modern world begins in the sixteenth century with the establishment of European colonies overseas, and covers the history of migration to the late twentieth century, when global communications and transport systems stimulated immense and complex flows of labour migrants and skilled professionals. In ninety-five contributions, leading scholars from twenty-seven different countries consider a wide variety of issues including migration patterns, the flights of refugees and illegal migration. Each entry is a substantive essay, supported by up-to-date bibliographies, tables, plates, maps and figures. As the most wide-ranging coverage of migration in a single volume, The Cambridge Survey of World Migration will be an indispensable reference tool for scholars and students in the field.
Author : Saul Dubow
Publisher : Juta and Company Ltd
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 12,54 MB
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 9781770130012
The 1940s was a turbulent period in the history of South Africa. It opened with parliament's bitterly contested decision to enter the war; was rocked by political turmoil; and ended with a bang, as well as a whimper, as the National party captured political power in 1948.