Samuel Andreas Admasie
Biographic Data
| ID | 4631289 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Samuel Andreas Admasie |
| GIVEN NAMES | Samuel Andreas |
| FAMILY NAME | Admasie |
| SIGNATURE | ADMASIE S A |
| AFFILIATIONS | International Institute of Social History |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3657-5821 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Lineages of Minimum Wages in Ethiopia
In 2019, a new labour proclamation in Ethiopia established provisions for the introduction of minimum wages, responding to a demand that Ethiopian trade unions have repeatedly raised since the early 1960s. This article traces the evolution of that demand, examining how it has been articulated, the types of minimum wages envisioned and the varied responses of state authorities. It explores the strategies, contestations and international support th…
A Short Report on the Ghana Railway Archive in Sekondi-Takoradi
This short report discusses the resources to be found in the Railway Archive in Sekondi-Takoradi, Ghana. This report is also the result of various exploratory missions, as part of a cooperative effort between the Ghana Railway Company, the Institute of African Studies of the University of Ghana, and the International Institute of Social History, the Netherlands. The archive under consideration is classified as an institutional archive which provi…
Trade Union Resurgence in Ethiopia
Despite a global trend of declining trade unionism, the Ethiopian trade union movement is resurgent. Having fought off a harsh labour bill and forced industrial parks to open to trade union organising in the past few years, it has scored some of its most momentous achievements, acquiring in the process momentum and leverage. Membership has grown substantially in the last few years, and a sharp increase in workplace-level collective action has occ…
Socialismes en Afrique
Ce volume est un état de la recherche internationale sur les socialismes africains. Y sont rassemblés des articles traitant de débats théoriques autour de ce thème et de ses sources intellectuelles mais aussi d'expériences très concrètes de socialisme, tant dans les villes que dans les campagnes : coopératives, comités de quartier, camps de rééducation... La situation de l'Afrique lusophone, parent pauvre des études africaines en France, et dont …
Sport, Tourism and Entertainment
A general twentieth-century history of labour in entertainment in Africa requires simultaneously a level of detail and a level of abstraction that is difficult to reconcile, especially so in an area of labour so broad. The problem is aggravated by the paucity of literature on African labour history in this area, where references are often scattered and sources are fragmentary. This chapter has been structured around shifting labour relations with…
Fourteen Sport, Tourism and Entertainment
Sport, Tourism and Entertainment
Rethinking the Ethiopian Red Terror
This article examines the role of trade unions and of the Kebele – the most local urban administrative structures of the Ethiopian state – in the making of the Red Terror, a period of unprecedented political violence that closely followed the Ethiopian revolution of 1974. Drawing on a broad range of new source materials – from labour union files to oral histories and East German State Security archives – this article shows how the Red Terror was …
Amid political recalibrations
While the political protests that have gripped Ethiopia in recent years and the recalibrations within the ruling front that they have generated have been the subject of extensive attention, another aspect of ongoing social turbulence has been almost entirely neglected: the wave of labor unrest apparent since the autumn of 2017. No less than a dozen strikes have been recorded, in addition to a number of other signs of growing restiveness among wag…
Historicizing Contemporary Growth
This article aims to historicize the current conjuncture in Ethiopia, which is characterized by rapid economic growth. It aims to do so by using a historical and political economy perspective to analyze the social-structural transformation that the Ethiopian revolution entailed, the nature and dynamics of the social structures that emerged as a result of the Ethiopian revolution, and the manner in which those structural transformations relate to …
Amid political recalibrations
While the political protests that have gripped Ethiopia in recent years and the recalibrations within the ruling front that they have generated have been the subject of extensive attention, another aspect of ongoing social turbulence has been almost entirely neglected: the wave of labor unrest apparent since the autumn of 2017. No less than a dozen strikes have been recorded, in addition to a number of other signs of growing restiveness among wag…
Rethinking the Ethiopian Red Terror
This article examines the role of trade unions and of the Kebele – the most local urban administrative structures of the Ethiopian state – in the making of the Red Terror, a period of unprecedented political violence that closely followed the Ethiopian revolution of 1974. Drawing on a broad range of new source materials – from labour union files to oral histories and East German State Security archives – this article shows how the Red Terror was …
Historicizing Contemporary Growth
This article aims to historicize the current conjuncture in Ethiopia, which is characterized by rapid economic growth. It aims to do so by using a historical and political economy perspective to analyze the social-structural transformation that the Ethiopian revolution entailed, the nature and dynamics of the social structures that emerged as a result of the Ethiopian revolution, and the manner in which those structural transformations relate to …
Amid political recalibrations
While the political protests that have gripped Ethiopia in recent years and the recalibrations within the ruling front that they have generated have been the subject of extensive attention, another aspect of ongoing social turbulence has been almost entirely neglected: the wave of labor unrest apparent since the autumn of 2017. No less than a dozen strikes have been recorded, in addition to a number of other signs of growing restiveness among wag…
Sport, Tourism and Entertainment
A general twentieth-century history of labour in entertainment in Africa requires simultaneously a level of detail and a level of abstraction that is difficult to reconcile, especially so in an area of labour so broad. The problem is aggravated by the paucity of literature on African labour history in this area, where references are often scattered and sources are fragmentary. This chapter has been structured around shifting labour relations with…
Fourteen Sport, Tourism and Entertainment
Sport, Tourism and Entertainment
Rethinking the Ethiopian Red Terror
This article examines the role of trade unions and of the Kebele – the most local urban administrative structures of the Ethiopian state – in the making of the Red Terror, a period of unprecedented political violence that closely followed the Ethiopian revolution of 1974. Drawing on a broad range of new source materials – from labour union files to oral histories and East German State Security archives – this article shows how the Red Terror was …
Socialismes en Afrique
Ce volume est un état de la recherche internationale sur les socialismes africains. Y sont rassemblés des articles traitant de débats théoriques autour de ce thème et de ses sources intellectuelles mais aussi d'expériences très concrètes de socialisme, tant dans les villes que dans les campagnes : coopératives, comités de quartier, camps de rééducation... La situation de l'Afrique lusophone, parent pauvre des études africaines en France, et dont …
Trade Union Resurgence in Ethiopia
Despite a global trend of declining trade unionism, the Ethiopian trade union movement is resurgent. Having fought off a harsh labour bill and forced industrial parks to open to trade union organising in the past few years, it has scored some of its most momentous achievements, acquiring in the process momentum and leverage. Membership has grown substantially in the last few years, and a sharp increase in workplace-level collective action has occ…
A Short Report on the Ghana Railway Archive in Sekondi-Takoradi
This short report discusses the resources to be found in the Railway Archive in Sekondi-Takoradi, Ghana. This report is also the result of various exploratory missions, as part of a cooperative effort between the Ghana Railway Company, the Institute of African Studies of the University of Ghana, and the International Institute of Social History, the Netherlands. The archive under consideration is classified as an institutional archive which provi…
Lineages of Minimum Wages in Ethiopia
In 2019, a new labour proclamation in Ethiopia established provisions for the introduction of minimum wages, responding to a demand that Ethiopian trade unions have repeatedly raised since the early 1960s. This article traces the evolution of that demand, examining how it has been articulated, the types of minimum wages envisioned and the varied responses of state authorities. It explores the strategies, contestations and international support th…
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