Kagan Guthrie’s holistic approach to migrant labor yields several important conclusions. First, he highlights the importance of workers’ choices, explaining not just why people moved but why they moved in the ways they did: how they calculated the benefits of one destination over another, and how they decided when circumstances made it necessary to move again. Second, his attention to mobility gives a much clearer view of the mechanisms of power available to colonial authorities, as well as the limits to their effectiveness. Finally, Kagan Guthrie suggests a new explanation for the divergent trajectories of southern and sub-Saharan Africa in the aftermath of World War II.
Kagan Guthrie’s holistic approach to migrant labor yields several important conclusions. First, he highlights the importance of workers’ choices, explaining not just why people moved but why they moved in the ways they did: how they calculated the benefits of one destination over another, and how they decided when circumstances made it necessary to move again. Second, his attention to mobility gives a much clearer view of the mechanisms of power available to colonial authorities, as well as the limits to their effectiveness. Finally, Kagan Guthrie suggests a new explanation for the divergent trajectories of southern and sub-Saharan Africa in the aftermath of World War II.
Bound for Work: Labor, Mobility, and Colonial Rule in Central Mozambique, 1940-1965
240Bound for Work: Labor, Mobility, and Colonial Rule in Central Mozambique, 1940-1965
240Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780813941547 |
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Publisher: | University of Virginia Press |
Publication date: | 10/10/2018 |
Series: | Reconsiderations in Southern African History |
Pages: | 240 |
Product dimensions: | 6.30(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.80(d) |
Age Range: | 18 Years |