Author: Richard Sandbrook
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521100786
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A study of the role of unionised workers in Kenya, this places the workers and their unions within the broad context of an evolving political economy. Similar studies, often restricted to a single trade union, have usually focused either on union-government relations or on internal union politics. This work is distinguished by its attempt to reveal the interrelation between these two facets of working-class life within a peculiar type of socio-economic environment - a predominantly peasant society governed by an elite committed to a capitalist economic strategy, closely associated with an 'external estate' of foreign interests, intertwined with local business concerns, and deeply involved in clientelist politics. Professor Sandbrook demonstrates that Frantz Fanon's sketch of the role of the unionised workers in an economically dependent former colony is largely correct in its application to Kenya. Top union leaders, drawn from the more privileged occupations, receiving relatively high rewards, and understandably apprehensive of the sanctions wielded by the ruling elite, have generally seen their role as obtaining a larger share of the economic pie for the workers within the capitalist political economy.
Proletarians and African Capitalism
Author: Richard Sandbrook
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521100786
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A study of the role of unionised workers in Kenya, this places the workers and their unions within the broad context of an evolving political economy. Similar studies, often restricted to a single trade union, have usually focused either on union-government relations or on internal union politics. This work is distinguished by its attempt to reveal the interrelation between these two facets of working-class life within a peculiar type of socio-economic environment - a predominantly peasant society governed by an elite committed to a capitalist economic strategy, closely associated with an 'external estate' of foreign interests, intertwined with local business concerns, and deeply involved in clientelist politics. Professor Sandbrook demonstrates that Frantz Fanon's sketch of the role of the unionised workers in an economically dependent former colony is largely correct in its application to Kenya. Top union leaders, drawn from the more privileged occupations, receiving relatively high rewards, and understandably apprehensive of the sanctions wielded by the ruling elite, have generally seen their role as obtaining a larger share of the economic pie for the workers within the capitalist political economy.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521100786
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A study of the role of unionised workers in Kenya, this places the workers and their unions within the broad context of an evolving political economy. Similar studies, often restricted to a single trade union, have usually focused either on union-government relations or on internal union politics. This work is distinguished by its attempt to reveal the interrelation between these two facets of working-class life within a peculiar type of socio-economic environment - a predominantly peasant society governed by an elite committed to a capitalist economic strategy, closely associated with an 'external estate' of foreign interests, intertwined with local business concerns, and deeply involved in clientelist politics. Professor Sandbrook demonstrates that Frantz Fanon's sketch of the role of the unionised workers in an economically dependent former colony is largely correct in its application to Kenya. Top union leaders, drawn from the more privileged occupations, receiving relatively high rewards, and understandably apprehensive of the sanctions wielded by the ruling elite, have generally seen their role as obtaining a larger share of the economic pie for the workers within the capitalist political economy.
African Proletarians and Colonial Capitalism
Author: Henry S. Meebelo
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Labor
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Labor
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
Proletarians and African Capitalism
Author: Richard Sandbrook
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Labor and laboring classes
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Labor and laboring classes
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
African Proletarians and Colonial Capitalism
Author: Henry S. Meebelo
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Strikes and lockouts
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Strikes and lockouts
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
The Development of Capitalism in Africa
Author: John Sender
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136856714
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
First published in 1986, this work challenges underdevelopment analyses of Africa’s past experiences and future prospects, and builds upon a very wide range of recent historical research to argue that the impact of Capitalism has resulted in economic progress and significant improvements in living standards. In marked contrast to the dependency approach, they propose that the important political and economic differences between the experiences of developing countries should be stressed and analysed. The argument is supported by a detailed look at the emergence since 1900 of capitalist social relations of production in nine different countries.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136856714
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
First published in 1986, this work challenges underdevelopment analyses of Africa’s past experiences and future prospects, and builds upon a very wide range of recent historical research to argue that the impact of Capitalism has resulted in economic progress and significant improvements in living standards. In marked contrast to the dependency approach, they propose that the important political and economic differences between the experiences of developing countries should be stressed and analysed. The argument is supported by a detailed look at the emergence since 1900 of capitalist social relations of production in nine different countries.
Marx, Money, Christ
Author: Oswald Hirmer
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Capitalism
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Capitalism
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
National Democratic Revolution and Socialism
Author: Thatoyaone Moepetsane
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0359481639
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 19
Book Description
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0359481639
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 19
Book Description
The Emergence of African Capitalism
Author: John Iliffe
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Lectures on the historical evolution of capitalism in Africa South of Sahara - focuses on the development of employment of hired workers by Black employers; discusses the existence of capitalism in the pre- colonialism period, the rise of capitalist farmers, their relationships with Black peasant farmers and agricultural workers and with the White ruling class, etc.; examines interrelationships between the emergence of capitalism and Christianity, Islam and local level religions; considers growth of capitalism after independence, and economic policies.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Lectures on the historical evolution of capitalism in Africa South of Sahara - focuses on the development of employment of hired workers by Black employers; discusses the existence of capitalism in the pre- colonialism period, the rise of capitalist farmers, their relationships with Black peasant farmers and agricultural workers and with the White ruling class, etc.; examines interrelationships between the emergence of capitalism and Christianity, Islam and local level religions; considers growth of capitalism after independence, and economic policies.
Accumulation in an African Periphery
Author: Issa G. Shivji
Publisher: African Books Collective
ISBN: 9987080316
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
The "Washington consensus" which ushered in neo-liberal policies in Africa is over. It was buried at the G20 meeting in London in early April, 2009. The world capitalist system is in shambles. The champions of capitalism in the global North are rewriting the rules of the game to save it. The crisis creates an opening for the global South, in particular Africa, to refuse to play the capitalist-imperialist game, whatever the rules. It is time to rethink and revisit the development direction and strategies on the continent. This is the central message of this intensely argued book. Issa Shivji demonstrates the need to go back to the basics of radical political economy and ask fundamental questions: who produces the society's surplus product, who appropriates and accumulates it and how is this done. What is the character of accumulation and what is the social agency of change? The book provides an alternative theoretical framework to help African researchers and intellectuals to understand their societies better and contribute towards changing them in the interest of the working people.
Publisher: African Books Collective
ISBN: 9987080316
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
The "Washington consensus" which ushered in neo-liberal policies in Africa is over. It was buried at the G20 meeting in London in early April, 2009. The world capitalist system is in shambles. The champions of capitalism in the global North are rewriting the rules of the game to save it. The crisis creates an opening for the global South, in particular Africa, to refuse to play the capitalist-imperialist game, whatever the rules. It is time to rethink and revisit the development direction and strategies on the continent. This is the central message of this intensely argued book. Issa Shivji demonstrates the need to go back to the basics of radical political economy and ask fundamental questions: who produces the society's surplus product, who appropriates and accumulates it and how is this done. What is the character of accumulation and what is the social agency of change? The book provides an alternative theoretical framework to help African researchers and intellectuals to understand their societies better and contribute towards changing them in the interest of the working people.
Class Struggle in Africa
Author: Kwame Nkrumah
Publisher: Panaf
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Recent African history has exposed the close links between the interests of imperialism and neo-colonialism and the African bourgeoisie. This book reveals the nature and extent of the class struggle in Africa, and sets it in the broad context of the African Revolution and the world socialist revolution. 86pp; 1 map
Publisher: Panaf
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Recent African history has exposed the close links between the interests of imperialism and neo-colonialism and the African bourgeoisie. This book reveals the nature and extent of the class struggle in Africa, and sets it in the broad context of the African Revolution and the world socialist revolution. 86pp; 1 map