| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
African ethnographic studies of the 20th century ; volume 52 |
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African ethnographic studies of the 20th century ; volume 52.
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| Contents |
Part 1 1. Introductory -- 2. Primitive African Society -- 3 and 4. Foreign Influences -- 5. The Fall of Slavery -- 6. The Incentive to Wage-Earning -- 7. Forced Labour -- 8. Alternatives to Wage-Earning -- 9. Methods of Recruiting -- 10. Conditions of Recruiting -- 11. The Contract -- 12. The Value of the Contract -- 13. The Identification of the Worker -- 14. Penal Sanctions -- 15. The Workman and the Law -- 16. Living Conditions and Their Effect -- 17. Moral Effects of Wage-Earning -- 18. Women and Child Workers -- 19. The Wage-Earner and the Land -- 20. Labour and International Relations -- 21. Some Aspects of Investigation -- Part 2. -- Summary of Legislation. List of African Countries Dealt with in the following summary of legislation. The Belgian Congo. British Colonies, Protectorates and Mandated Territories. French Colonies. Italian Somaliland and Eritrea. Liberia. Portuguese Colonies. Spanish Colonies. -- Part 3: International Draft Conventions |
| Summary |
Originally published in 1933, this book is a comparative study of the labour market in the early part of the twentieth century in different parts of Africa. It focusses particularly on the impact of Western influence, both on an industrial and sociological level, in the period after the First World War. The book takes as its area central and southern parts of Africa, as well as the West Coast |
| Notes |
Originally published in 1933 by Oxford University Press for the International African Institute |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed August 22, 2018) |
| Subject |
Working class -- Africa
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Labor laws and legislation -- Africa
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations.
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Labor laws and legislation
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Working class
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Mouvement ouvrier -- Afrique.
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Droit du travail -- Afrique.
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Africa
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780429486999 |
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0429486995 |
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9780429944635 |
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0429944632 |
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9780429944642 |
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0429944640 |
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9780429944628 |
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0429944624 |
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