عنوان

Women in African Labour History

شماره

LA114558

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

Women in African Labour History

نام عام مواد

[Article]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Carolyne Dennis

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Leiden

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Brill

متن يادداشت

This article begins with a discussion of the issues which have dominated different perspectives within African labour history: the existence of a 'target' labour force; the issue of the 'commitment' of the industrial labour force; and, from a different theoretical position, the particular significance of the southern African contract labour force and the 'labour aristocracy' debate. The concentration upon these issues is placed against the colonial and post-colonial trends in African economies and the ideological assumptions of the existing approaches to African labour history. Labour history in Africa has focused on men's labour because it has concentrated upon wage labour, a labour market in which only a small proportion of African women participate. The article discusses the existing literature on the development of women's wage labour in Africa and the issues it raises in terms of the 'double' day and the emergence of a segregated labour market. It goes on to suggest that if we wish to develop an adequate labour history which incorporates a labour history of women, it is necessary to look outside the boundaries of 'formal' labour history. Firstly, it is necessary to focus on studies of women's household labour in the peasant economies of West Africa and on the migrant labour, 'native reserve' economies of southern Africa. Secondly, it is necessary to examine the literature on the development of petty commodity production in African societies in order to determine the place of women within the 'informal' sector. This places in context the relatively sparse literature on the manner in which women have been incorporated into the wage labour force and suggests the appropriate direction for African labour history.

تاريخ نشر

1988

توصيف ظاهري

125-140

عنوان

Journal of Asian and African Studies

شماره جلد

23/1-2

شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها

1568-5217

اصطلاح موضوعی

African Studies

اصطلاح موضوعی

General

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Carolyne Dennis

شماره بازیابی

10.1163/156852188X00088

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Article]

کد کاربرگه

275578

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y