The Development of an African Working Class - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Development of an African Working Class write by Richard Sandbrook. This book was released on 1975. The Development of an African Working Class available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Compilation of conference papers on the development of the labour movement and working class consciousness in Africa - covers the growth in trade union activities, political party relationships, etc., and includes case studies conducted in Kenya, Tanzania, Nigeria, Ghana, South Africa R, rhodesia (Zimbabwe), etc. Bibliography pp. 317 to 324 and references. Conference held in toronto 1973 April 6 to 8.
The Making of an African Working Class
The Making of an African Working Class - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Making of an African Working Class write by Pnina Werbner. This book was released on 2014-08-20. The Making of an African Working Class available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Making of an African Working Class explores the formation of working class identity among low-paid African workers. In arguing for a radical public anthropology of worker identity, the book seeks to analyse the cultural, legal, ideological and experiential dimensions of labour activism often neglected in other labour studies. Pnina Werbner shows that by fusing cosmopolitan and local popular cultural forms of protest, unionists have created a distinctive, vernacular way of being a worker in Botswana: one that does not deny workers' roots at home, in the countryside, while being cognisant of a wider world of cosmopolitan labour rights. The assertion of working class dignity, honour and respect, Pnina argues, is a powerful motivating force for manual workers. Against legal-sceptical approaches, The Making of an African Working Class argues that in challenging the government - their employer - in court, manual workers' protests and mobilisation are deeply embedded in ethics, social justice and the law.
Race Rebels
Race Rebels - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Race Rebels write by Robin D. G. Kelley. This book was released on 1996-06-01. Race Rebels available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Many black strategies of daily resistance have been obscured--until now. Race rebels, argues Kelley, have created strategies of resistance, movements, and entire subcultures. Here, for the first time, everyday race rebels are given the historiographical attention they deserve, from the Jim Crow era to the present.
Workers on Arrival
Workers on Arrival - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Workers on Arrival write by Joe William Trotter. This book was released on 2021-01-19. Workers on Arrival available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "An eloquent and essential correction to contemporary discussions of the American working class."—The Nation From the ongoing issues of poverty, health, housing, and employment to the recent upsurge of lethal police-community relations, the black working class stands at the center of perceptions of social and racial conflict today. Journalists and public policy analysts often discuss the black poor as “consumers” rather than “producers,” as “takers” rather than “givers,” and as “liabilities” instead of “assets.” In his engrossing history, Workers on Arrival, Joe William Trotter, Jr., refutes these perceptions by charting the black working class’s vast contributions to the making of America. Covering the last four hundred years since Africans were first brought to Virginia in 1619, Trotter traces the complicated journey of black workers from the transatlantic slave trade to the demise of the industrial order in the twenty-first century. At the center of this compelling, fast-paced narrative are the actual experiences of these African American men and women. A dynamic and vital history of remarkable contributions despite repeated setbacks, Workers on Arrival expands our understanding of America’s economic and industrial growth, its cities, ideas, and institutions, and the real challenges confronting black urban communities today.
The Wages of Whiteness
The Wages of Whiteness - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Wages of Whiteness write by David R. Roediger. This book was released on 2020-05-05. The Wages of Whiteness available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An enduring history of how race and class came together to mark the course of the antebellum US and our present crisis. Roediger shows that in a nation pledged to independence, but less and less able to avoid the harsh realities of wage labor, the identity of "white" came to allow many Northern workers to see themselves as having something in common with their bosses. Projecting onto enslaved people and free Blacks the preindustrial closeness to pleasure that regimented labor denied them, "white workers" consumed blackface popular culture, reshaped languages of class, and embraced racist practices on and off the job. Far from simply preserving economic advantage, white working-class racism derived its terrible force from a complex series of psychological and ideological mechanisms that reinforced stereotypes and helped to forge the very identities of white workers in opposition to Blacks. Full of insight regarding the precarious positions of not-quite-white Irish immigrants to the US and the fate of working class abolitionism, Wages of Whiteness contributes mightily and soberly to debates over the 1619 Project and critical race theory.
