Islam and Urban Labor in Northern Nigeria
The Making of a Muslim Working Class
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3913545 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alaine S Hutson, Paul M Lubeck |
| Year | 1990 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 356 |
| Publication date | 1990-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The International Journal of African Historical Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0361-7882 • E-ISSN: 2326-3016 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/219370 |
| OpenAlex | W2312516135 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 20 |
This study analyses the process of urban class formation among Muslim workers in Kano, Northern Nigeria. it examines the interaction between Islamic nationalism and new forms of class consciousness and culture generated by industrialisation and the petroleum boom during the seventies. Paul Lubeck argues that, when industralisation is introduced from the West, Islamic nationalism supports class consciousness. The book begins with a review of the theoretical orientation and the historical background to both Islamisation and capitalist development, and goes on to discuss the impact of the Nigerian civil war and the oil boom on Kano's traders, craftsmen, hawkers and wage workers, the relationship between wage workers and informal sector producers, who together form the class base of the popular alliance, and the interaction between Islamic institutions and industrial processes and timing. In the later chapters the focus is on industrial workers - their recruitment, adjustment to industrial labour and social mobility, trade union organisation and strikes
Archaeology · Class formation · Geography · Islam · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Working class · Gender Studies · History · Islamic Finance and Banking Studies · Law · Philosophy · Race, History, and American Society · Religion and Sociopolitical Dynamics in Nigeria
Introduction
Critical African Studies
Sectarian Rebellions in Post-Transition Nigeria Compared
The only good jihadist is a dead jihadist
Working-class entrepreneurialism
Limits of the Game of Masks
Crime and Justice in Postcolonial Nigeria
In Search of One Word's Meaning
Urban Conflict and Social Movements in Poor Countries
Petroleum and Proletarianization
Toward a Broadened Theory of Preference Formation and the Diffusion of Innovations
Lagos in life
Kinship and Corruption in Contemporary Nigeria
Muslim Women Traders of Northern Nigeria
Anatomy of a Riot
Islamic protest under semi-industrial capitalism
Islam, Ethnicity, and Conflict in Ethiopia
Salafism and Political Order in Africa
The Process of Urbanization in Africa (From the Origins to the Beginning of Independence)
Work, class and empire
| Unique citing works | 20 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,49 |
| Citation span | 1985 - 2021 (37) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |