Racializing Class, Classifying Race
Journal Data
| Type | SOURCE_BOOK |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan Limited |
| ISBN-13 | 9780230500969 |
| Open Library | OL16943265W |
| Total publications | 3 |
| Coverage period | 2000 - 2000 |
| Language | EN |
The ten essays in this book explore the intersection of race and class in the study of labour on three continents. Leading scholars examine the way in which working-class identities took shape and cha
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Colonial Labour and Work Palaver
This chapter aims to examine the role of West African migrant workers in the context of British colonial trade circa 1880–1960. In particular, it will explore the issue of labour conflict in the two port cities of Liverpool, in the UK, and Freetown, in West Africa. This occurred at two levels. First, it involved intra-class conflict, both in Britain, between white British labour and West African colonial labour, and in West Africa, between differ…
Becoming ‘Men’, Becoming ‘Workers’
On 18 November 1949, police fired on a group of miners engaged in a sit-in strike at the Iva Valley mine of the Enugu Government Colliery in south-eastern Nigeria. They killed 22 miners and injured 50. Additional fatalities occurred during demonstrations led by radical nationalists in eastern Nigeria’s major cities of Calabar, Aba, Onitsha, Port Harcourt, and Enugu. The shoo and opened the Labour government to attacks over the pace and nature of …
Racializing Class,Classifying Race
The ten essays in this book explore the intersection of race and class in the study of labour on three continents. Leading scholars examine the way in which working-class identities took shape and cha
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Colonial Labour and Work Palaver
This chapter aims to examine the role of West African migrant workers in the context of British colonial trade circa 1880–1960. In particular, it will explore the issue of labour conflict in the two port cities of Liverpool, in the UK, and Freetown, in West Africa. This occurred at two levels. First, it involved intra-class conflict, both in Britain, between white British labour and West African colonial labour, and in West Africa, between differ…
Becoming ‘Men’, Becoming ‘Workers’
On 18 November 1949, police fired on a group of miners engaged in a sit-in strike at the Iva Valley mine of the Enugu Government Colliery in south-eastern Nigeria. They killed 22 miners and injured 50. Additional fatalities occurred during demonstrations led by radical nationalists in eastern Nigeria’s major cities of Calabar, Aba, Onitsha, Port Harcourt, and Enugu. The shoo and opened the Labour government to attacks over the pace and nature of …
Racializing Class,Classifying Race
The ten essays in this book explore the intersection of race and class in the study of labour on three continents. Leading scholars examine the way in which working-class identities took shape and cha