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This Detailed And Authoritative Volume Changes Our Conceptions Of Imperial And African History. Frederick Cooper Gathers A Vast Range Of Archival Sources In French And English To Achieve A Truly Comparative Study Of Colonial Policy Towards The Recruitment, Control, Institutionalization Of African Labor Forces From The Mid-1930s, When The Labor Question Was First Posed, To The Late 1950s, When Decolonization Was Well Under Way. Professor Cooper Explores Colonial Conceptions Of The African Worker, And Shows How African Trade Union And Political Leaders Used The New Language Of Social Change To Claim Equal Wages, Equal Benefits, And Share Of Power. This Helped To Persuade European Officials That Their Post-war Project Of Building A Modern Africa Within The Colonial System Was Both Unaffordable And Politically Impossible. France And Great Britain Left The Continent, Insisting The They Had Made It Possible For Africans To Organize Wage Labor And Urban Life In The Image Of Industrial Societies While Abdicating To African Elites Responsibility For The Consequences Of The Colonial Intervention. They Left Behind The Question Of How Much The New Language For Discussing Social Policy Correspo

Author

Frederick Cooper; American Council of Learned Societies

Publisher

Cambridge, [England] ; New York: Cambridge University Press

Published

1996

Language

EN

ISBN

9780511584091

Subjects

Economics, Management, History