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- Gender and Plantation Labour in Africa: The Story of Tea Pluckers� Struggles in Cameroon
- Book
- 2012
- Published by: LANGAA RPCIG
summary
This book explores the relationship between plantation labour and gender in Africa. Such a study is the more opportune because most of the existing works on plantation labour in Africa seem to have either under-studied or even ignored the changing conceptions of gender on the continent in recent times. One of the book�s major concerns is to demonstrate that the introduction of plantation labour during colonial rule in Africa has had significant consequences for gender roles and relations within and beyond the capitalist labour process. The book focuses on two tea estates in Anglophone Cameroon. A study of these estates is particularly interesting in that one of them employs mainly female pluckers while the other employs mainly male pluckers. This allows for an examination of any variations in male and female workers� modes of resistance to the control and exploitation they meet in the labour process. Such a comparative analysis is helpful in assessing the widespread managerial assumption on tea estates that female pluckers tend to be more productive and docile than male pluckers.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgements
- pp. ix-x
- List of Tables
- pp. xi-xii
- Abbreviations
- pp. xiii-xiv
- Map of the Republic of Cameroon
- pp. xv-xvi
- Part I: The Tole Tea Estate
- Chapter 3. Female workers
- pp. 39-74
- Part II: The Ndu Tea Estate
- Chapter 7. Male workers
- pp. 145-168
- Chapter 9. Male workers and trade unionism
- pp. 187-234
- Part III: The Cameroon tea estates
- References
- pp. 263-278
Additional Information
ISBN
9789956728251
Related ISBN(s)
9789956727308
MARC Record
OCLC
814096609
Pages
306
Launched on MUSE
2012-12-20
Language
English
Open Access
No