Unsettled Accounts
Stool Debts, Chieftaincy Disputes and the Question of Asante Constitutionalism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8977571 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sara Berry (0000-0002-2146-2816, Johns Hopkins University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1998 |
| Volume | 39 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 39-62 |
| Publication date | 1998-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of African History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8537 • E-ISSN: 1469-5138 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0021853797007147 |
| OpenAlex | W2097104565 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
In a recent study, Fred Cooper argues that strikes and other forms of labor protest had a clarifying effect on official thinking not only about labor policies but also about the aims and, ultimately, the viability of colonial rule. As Africans went on strike, from the Copperbelt to the docks of Mombasa and the Gold Coast Railway, to demand better wages and working conditions, colonial administrators first envisioned and then embraced the idea of an African working class and the possibility that African workers could be managed with the same kinds of labor codes and social welfare policies that obtained in Europe. Of course, the image of a working class applied only so far in Africa. Colonial officials never fully understood the way African workers lived or the place of wage employment in African society, and were dismayed when their newly acquired understanding of Africans as universal workers was challenged in the 1950s by former strike leaders who began to insist on Africans' rights to political autonomy. Nonetheless, as Cooper shows, the effects of recurrent, often highly effective, strikes were far-reaching. As officials confronted the financial and political implications of providing all Africans with social welfare benefits and economic development comparable to those of Europe, they decided it was time to abandon the imperial enterprise
Autonomy · Colonialism · Constitutionalism · Debt · Democracy · Economics · General strike · Indirect rule · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Wage · Welfare · Working class · African history and culture studies · Gender Studies · Law
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| Unique citing works | 10 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,38 |
| Citation span | 2000 - 2024 (25) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 10 |