A Most Promising Weed

A History of Tobacco Farming and Labor in Colonial Zimbabwe, 1890-1945

Datos Bibliográficos

ID3910464
AutoresWilliam Munro (0000-0002-0760-0397), William A Munro, Steven C Rubert
Año1998
Volumen31
Número3
Páginas637
Fecha de publicación1998-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaThe International Journal of African Historical Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0361-7882 • E-ISSN: 2326-3016
EditorialJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/221485
OpenAlexW2112419829
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas10

A Most Promising Weed examines the work experience, living conditions, and social relations of thousands of African men, women, and children on European-owned tobacco farms in colonial Zimbabwe from 1890 to 1945. Steven C. Rubert provides evidence that Africans were not passive in their responses to the penetration of European capitalism into Zimbabwe but, on the contrary, helped to shape both the work and living conditions they encountered as they entered wage employment. Beginning with a brief history of tobacco growing in Zimbabwe, this study focuses on the organization of workers' compounds and on the paid and unpaid labor performed by both women and children on those farms

Agriculture · Agronomy · Archaeology · Biology · Colonialism · Cultivation of tobacco · Geography · Political science · Weed · African history and culture studies · African studies and sociopolitical issues