Les hommes d'affaires zaïrois
Du Travail Salarié À l'Entreprise Personnelle
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2139306 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tshilemalema Mukenge (Université nationale du Zaïre, campus de Lubumbashi., corresponding author) |
| Year | 1973 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 455-475 |
| Publication date | 1973-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0008-3968 • E-ISSN: 1923-3051 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00083968.1973.10803709 |
| OpenAlex | W2284250249 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 2 |
Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image sizeABSTRACTZairian traders and craftsmen are mostly former wage earners who have invested into their business incomes they had gained through selling their labour force. They thus share two elements of homogeneity: their socio-economic origin and their source of primary accumulation. Therefore reference to their former conditions on the labour market is indispensable if any relationship is to be established between their business and their socio-economic antecedents. Now it is well known that in terms of wages and other material advantages the greatest majority of Africans, whom we call “masses of workers,” have always ranked under the vital minimum, while a very few-designated here as directors ans leaders, have been able to realize a certain surplus of variable importance, as a result of their higher positions and type of responsibility. This inequality of chances is likely to influence the size of business in the sense that enterprises held by former members of “masses of workers” are generally very small while most of middle sized enterprises belong to former “directors and leaders.” The similarity of conditions between the owners of middle sized enterprises and the “directors and leaders” on the one hand, and between small scale businessmen and the “masses of workers” on the other hand, makes it primature and uneasy, at the present time to define the so called “African Middle class” (self-employed traders and craftsmen) in terms of a class, different from the bureaucratic bourgeoisie (“directors and leaders”) as well as from the proletariat (“masses of workers”)
Bourgeoisie · Bureaucracy · Business · Economics · Labour economics · Market economy · Middle class · Political science · Proletariat · Wage · African history and culture studies · Agriculture and Rural Development Research · Law · Multiculturalism, Politics, Migration, Gender
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,04 |
| Citation span | 1976 - 1983 (8) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |