Master and Servant in Colonial Kenya, 1895–1939
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8976301 |
|---|---|
| Authors | D Anderson (0000-0001-6086-1716, SOAS University of London, corresponding author), David M Anderson (0000-0002-0328-1640) |
| Year | 2000 |
| Volume | 41 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 459-485 |
| Publication date | 2000-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of African History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8537 • E-ISSN: 1469-5138 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s002185370000774x |
| OpenAlex | W2079609707 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 31 |
T HE recruitment of African labour at poor rates of pay and under primitive conditions of work was characteristic of the operation of colonial capitalism in Africa during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The implications of these conditions have been generalized very widely in the historiography of colonial Kenya. Where capital was centred upon extractive industries or upon settler agriculture (as in Kenya), historians have found much evidence to indicate that colonial states (and the metropolitan government) readily colluded with capital in providing the legal framework within which labour could be recruited and maintained in adequate numbers and at low cost to the employer. The state itself was the largest employer of labour throughout British colonial Africa and shared an interest in encouraging Africans into the labour market. Criticisms of labour conditions prevailing in any colony were thus likely to be interpreted as criticisms of the state itself
Ancient history · Archaeology · Capital (architecture · Capitalism · Colonialism · Development economics · Economic history · Economics · Government (linguistics · Historiography · Metropolitan area · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Servant · State (computer science · African history and culture studies · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History · Law
Performing Empire
Segmentation juridique et colonialisme en Afrique subsaharienne
Paying in Cents, Paying in Rupees
Colonial Urban Planning in Anglophone Africa
Laborers, Migrants, Refugees
The hard work of future-making
Labour Control and the Establishment of Profitable Settler Agriculture in Colonial Kenya, c. 1920–45
Civilising African Cities
Shauri ya Sera Kali’
Identifying Colonial Subjects
The African Savers and the Post Office Savings Bank in Colonial Kenya (1910-1954)
Touts and Despots
Fighting over Urban Space
Endogenous Processes of Colonial Settlement. The Success and Failure of European Settler Farming in Sub-Saharan Africa
Open Sourcing the Colonial Archive – A Digital Montage of the History of Fernando Pó and the Bight of Biafra
Legal segmentation and early colonialism in sub‐Saharan Africa
The Women of Kenya Speak
Empires and Colonial Incarceration in the Twentieth Century
"Autochthony and "Family
Stoop Low to Conquer
Colonial Exceptions
Colonial Township Laws and Urban Governance in Kenya
Tensions of Colonial Punishment
William Munro Tapp
Biometrics, Race Making, and White Exceptionalism
The deeper history of detention in Kenya
Vaccinations, Pills, and Resistance
Anthropos into humanitas
Decolonizing refugee integration
Power, Subsidiarity, and the Economy of Exclusion
White settlers and the law in early colonial Kenya
| Unique citing works | 31 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,63 |
| Citation span | 2007 - 2025 (19) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 31 |