Strike action and self-help associations

Zimbabwean worker protest and culture after World War I

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4968359
AutoresTsuneo Yoshikuni (autor de correspondencia)
Año1989
Volumen15
Número3
Páginas440-468
Fecha de publicación1989-04-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Southern African Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0305-7070 • E-ISSN: 1465-3893
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/03057078908708210
OpenAlexW1966703143
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas5
Referencias citadas8

Between 1918 and 1921 in Southern Rhodesia there were numerous strikes by African workers throughout the colony, in railways, mines, municipalities, and even amongst domestic workers, despite the criminal nature of such actions. The first two sections of this paper trace the causes and circumstances of the strike wave, including the fall in real wages during the First World War and the shortage of labour after the influenza epidemic which followed, and the sense of timing shown by many of the demonstrators. To restrict attention to those overt events, however, neglects the interior world of the Africans. Accordingly in the following sections a particular strike is examined in detail in its cultural context, including the formation of ethnically‐based mutual aid societies and other African responses to the repressive work regime. Together the internal and external events show how the immediate post‐war years constitute a watershed in Zimbabwean history

Collective action · Development economics · Economic shortage · Economics · Ethnic group · Ethnically diverse · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · World War II · African history and culture studies · African studies and sociopolitical issues · Gender Studies · History · Law