Beverly Grier
Biographic Data
| ID | 123410 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Beverly Grier |
| GIVEN NAMES | Beverly |
| FAMILY NAME | Grier |
| SIGNATURE | GRIER B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Clark University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 62 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Voice and Agency
Voices of African Women
Bond, Johanna, ed. (2005), Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 456 pp., $45.00, ISBN 978‐0‐89089‐124‐7. Johanna Bond has assembled an impressive collection of essays (27 in all) written by African
Child Labor and Africanist Scholarship
Though children's labor has been critical to African economies historically, Africanist scholars tend to treat child and adolescent workers as invisible. In this essay, the reasons for this neglect are explored, as are the consequences of such neglect for theory and empirical research. Suggestions are made for pursuing research on child and adolescent labor that places young workers within the broader context of economic, social, and political re…
Gold Coast to Ghana
Invisible hands
This article argues that the role of children as part of both the paid and unpaid labour force in colonial Zimbabwe was of greater significance than has been realised and that the subject has received far less attention than it deserves from historians. Thus child labour has been doubly 'invisible'. It was, like the labour of women, largely outside the official discourse on labour in the period under discussion (1890–1930) and also it remained la…
Pawns, Porters, and Petty Traders
Activities and Appointments
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South Africa
Towards a Political Economy for Africa
Class and Economic Change in Kenya
Cocoa Marketing in Colonial Ghana
No abstract
Underdevelopment, Modes of Production, and the State in Colonial Ghana
In a recent essay reviewing the literature on modes of production and the transition to capitalism in underdeveloped countries, Aiden Foster-Carter (1978: 72) criticizes the growing volume of Marxist works on development for their lack of theoretical rigor and cohesion: The very recrudescence of Marxist analysis is tending, like a tide going out, to create little rock pools increasingly unconnected to one another, in which narrowly circumscribed …
Child Labor and Africanist Scholarship
Though children's labor has been critical to African economies historically, Africanist scholars tend to treat child and adolescent workers as invisible. In this essay, the reasons for this neglect are explored, as are the consequences of such neglect for theory and empirical research. Suggestions are made for pursuing research on child and adolescent labor that places young workers within the broader context of economic, social, and political re…
Pawns, Porters, and Petty Traders
Invisible hands
This article argues that the role of children as part of both the paid and unpaid labour force in colonial Zimbabwe was of greater significance than has been realised and that the subject has received far less attention than it deserves from historians. Thus child labour has been doubly 'invisible'. It was, like the labour of women, largely outside the official discourse on labour in the period under discussion (1890–1930) and also it remained la…
Underdevelopment, Modes of Production, and the State in Colonial Ghana
In a recent essay reviewing the literature on modes of production and the transition to capitalism in underdeveloped countries, Aiden Foster-Carter (1978: 72) criticizes the growing volume of Marxist works on development for their lack of theoretical rigor and cohesion: The very recrudescence of Marxist analysis is tending, like a tide going out, to create little rock pools increasingly unconnected to one another, in which narrowly circumscribed …
Cocoa Marketing in Colonial Ghana
No abstract
Underdevelopment, Modes of Production, and the State in Colonial Ghana
In a recent essay reviewing the literature on modes of production and the transition to capitalism in underdeveloped countries, Aiden Foster-Carter (1978: 72) criticizes the growing volume of Marxist works on development for their lack of theoretical rigor and cohesion: The very recrudescence of Marxist analysis is tending, like a tide going out, to create little rock pools increasingly unconnected to one another, in which narrowly circumscribed …
Class and Economic Change in Kenya
Towards a Political Economy for Africa
South Africa
Activities and Appointments
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Pawns, Porters, and Petty Traders
Invisible hands
This article argues that the role of children as part of both the paid and unpaid labour force in colonial Zimbabwe was of greater significance than has been realised and that the subject has received far less attention than it deserves from historians. Thus child labour has been doubly 'invisible'. It was, like the labour of women, largely outside the official discourse on labour in the period under discussion (1890–1930) and also it remained la…
Gold Coast to Ghana
Child Labor and Africanist Scholarship
Though children's labor has been critical to African economies historically, Africanist scholars tend to treat child and adolescent workers as invisible. In this essay, the reasons for this neglect are explored, as are the consequences of such neglect for theory and empirical research. Suggestions are made for pursuing research on child and adolescent labor that places young workers within the broader context of economic, social, and political re…
Voices of African Women
Bond, Johanna, ed. (2005), Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 456 pp., $45.00, ISBN 978‐0‐89089‐124‐7. Johanna Bond has assembled an impressive collection of essays (27 in all) written by African
Voice and Agency
Political science (9 works) · Law (7 works) · Politics (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · African history and culture studies (5 works) · Colonialism (5 works) · Economics (5 works) · History (5 works) · Law (4 works) · African studies and sociopolitical issues (3 works)