Gender and Plantation Labour in Africa. The Story of Tea Pluckers' Struggles in Cameroon
The story of tea pluckers' struggles in Cameroon
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11873950 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Piet Konings (0000-0003-4617-3153, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Pages | 289 |
| Publication date | 2012-07-30 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Gender and plantation labour in Africa (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Langaa RPCIG (PUBLISHER) |
| OpenAlex | W600847057 |
| ISBN | 9789956727308 |
| Open Library | OL44629998M |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 2 |
n\tThis book explores the relationship between plantation labour and gender in Africa, particularly Cameroon. It demonstrates that the introduction of plantation labour during colonial rule has had significant consequences for gender roles and relations within and beyond the capitalist labour process. These effects have been quite ambivalent, being marked by both profound changes and remarkable continuities. The book focuses on two tea estates established in anglophone Cameroon in the 1950s, the Tole Estate and the Ndu Estate, the first employing mainly female pluckers, the second mainly male pluckers. This allows for an examination of the variations in male and female workers' modes of resistance to the control and exploitation they meet in the labour process. [ASC Leiden abstract] \n
Ambivalence · Colonialism · Economics · Economy · Estate · Gender relations · Geography · Political science · Resistance (ecology · Sociology · African history and culture studies · Gender Studies · Indian Economic and Social Development · International Labor and Employment Law · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology · Africa · Agricultural industries · Cameroon · Industrial relations · Male employees · Plantation workers · Social conditions · Social life and customs · Tea plantation workers · Women employees · Women tea plantation workers · Ecology
| Highly cited | No |
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