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- catalog abstract ""This detailed and authoritative volume changes our conceptions of "imperial" and "African" history. Frederick Cooper gathers a vast range of archival sources in French and English to achieve a truly comparative study of colonial policy towards the recruitment, control, institutionalization of African labor forces from the mid-1930s, when the labor question was first posed, to the late 1950s, when decolonization was well under way." "Professor Cooper explores colonial conceptions of the African worker, and shows how African trade union and political leaders used the new language of social change to claim equal wages, equal benefits, and share of power. This helped to persuade European officials that their post-war project of building a "modern" Africa within the colonial system was both unaffordable and politically impossible. France and Great Britain left the continent, insisting the they had made it possible for Africans to organize wage labor and urban life in the image of industrial societies while abdicating to African elites responsibility for the consequences of the colonial intervention. They left behind the question of how much the new language for discussing social policy corresponded to the lived experience of African workers and their families and how much room for maneuver Africans in government or in social movements had to recognize work, family, and community in their own ways."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b9878552.
- catalog coverage "Africa Colonial influence.".
- catalog coverage "France Colonies Africa.".
- catalog coverage "Great Britain Colonies Africa.".
- catalog created "1996.".
- catalog date "1996".
- catalog date "1996.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1996.".
- catalog description ""This detailed and authoritative volume changes our conceptions of "imperial" and "African" history. Frederick Cooper gathers a vast range of archival sources in French and English to achieve a truly comparative study of colonial policy towards the recruitment, control, institutionalization of African labor forces from the mid-1930s, when the labor question was first posed, to the late 1950s, when decolonization was well under way." "Professor Cooper explores colonial conceptions of the African worker, and shows how African trade union and political leaders used the new language of social change to claim equal wages, equal benefits, and share of power. This helped to persuade European officials that their post-war project of building a "modern" Africa within the colonial system was both unaffordable and politically impossible. France and Great Britain left the continent, insisting the they had made it possible for Africans to organize wage labor and urban life in the image of industrial societies while abdicating to African elites responsibility for the consequences of the colonial intervention. They left behind the question of how much the new language for discussing social policy corresponded to the lived experience of African workers and their families and how much room for maneuver Africans in government or in social movements had to recognize work, family, and community in their own ways."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog extent "xvii, 677 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0521562511".
- catalog isPartOf "African studies series ; 89".
- catalog issued "1996".
- catalog issued "1996.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Cambridge, England ; New York : Cambridge University Press,".
- catalog spatial "Africa Colonial influence.".
- catalog spatial "Africa".
- catalog spatial "France Colonies Africa.".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain Colonies Africa.".
- catalog subject "331/.06 20".
- catalog subject "Decolonization Africa History 20th century.".
- catalog subject "HD8776 .C66 1996".
- catalog subject "Labor Africa History 20th century.".
- catalog subject "Labor laws and legislation Africa History 20th century.".
- catalog subject "Labor movement Africa History 20th century.".
- catalog subject "Labor unions Africa History 20th century.".
- catalog title "Decolonization and African society : the labor question in French and British Africa / Frederick Cooper.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".