Author: Augustine Ahiauzu
Publisher: Cimrat Publications
ISBN:
Category : Labor
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
The African Industrial Man
Author: Augustine Ahiauzu
Publisher: Cimrat Publications
ISBN:
Category : Labor
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Publisher: Cimrat Publications
ISBN:
Category : Labor
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
The Ghanaian Factory Worker
Author: Margaret Peil
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521100229
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A pioneering study of the social aspects of industrialisation in a developing country in tropical Africa. Though industrial workers form a relatively small proportion of the Ghanaian population, they represent the 'modern' sector of the economy and industrial jobs are much sought after by school leavers. The occupational and migration histories, the work and home lives of these men and women are examined in the framework of current theories of modernity to demonstrate the effects of industrialisation in those countries where the process has not yet gone very far. This book surveys the field of industrialisation in Ghana and its effects through such other factors as migration. It provides a valuable comparison both with industrialisation elsewhere and with other aspects of African social life.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521100229
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A pioneering study of the social aspects of industrialisation in a developing country in tropical Africa. Though industrial workers form a relatively small proportion of the Ghanaian population, they represent the 'modern' sector of the economy and industrial jobs are much sought after by school leavers. The occupational and migration histories, the work and home lives of these men and women are examined in the framework of current theories of modernity to demonstrate the effects of industrialisation in those countries where the process has not yet gone very far. This book surveys the field of industrialisation in Ghana and its effects through such other factors as migration. It provides a valuable comparison both with industrialisation elsewhere and with other aspects of African social life.
The Ghanian Factory Worker: Industrial Man in Africa
Author: Margaret Peil
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Factory system
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Factory system
Languages : en
Pages : 254
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Industrial Man in South Africa
Author: Y. Glass
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 48
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The Tribe of Black Ulysses
Author: William Powell Jones
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252029790
Category : African American men
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
The lumber industry employed more African American men than any southern economic sector outside agriculture, yet those workers have been almost completely ignored by scholars. Drawing on a substantial number of oral history interviews as well as on manuscript sources, local newspapers, and government documents, The Tribe of Black Ulysses explores black men and women's changing relationship to industrial work in three sawmill communities (Elizabethtown, South Carolina, Chapman, Alabama, and Bogalusa, Louisiana). By restoring black lumber workers to the history of southern industrialization, William P. Jones reveals that industrial employment was not incompatible - as previous historians have assumed - with the racial segregation and political disfranchisement that defined African American life in the Jim Crow South. At the same time, he complicates an older tradition of southern sociology that viewed industrialization as socially disruptive and morally corrupting to African American social and cultural traditions rooted in agriculture. William P. Jones is an assistant professor of history at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. Barrett, Alice Kessler-Harris, David Montgomery, and Nelson Lichtenstein.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252029790
Category : African American men
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
The lumber industry employed more African American men than any southern economic sector outside agriculture, yet those workers have been almost completely ignored by scholars. Drawing on a substantial number of oral history interviews as well as on manuscript sources, local newspapers, and government documents, The Tribe of Black Ulysses explores black men and women's changing relationship to industrial work in three sawmill communities (Elizabethtown, South Carolina, Chapman, Alabama, and Bogalusa, Louisiana). By restoring black lumber workers to the history of southern industrialization, William P. Jones reveals that industrial employment was not incompatible - as previous historians have assumed - with the racial segregation and political disfranchisement that defined African American life in the Jim Crow South. At the same time, he complicates an older tradition of southern sociology that viewed industrialization as socially disruptive and morally corrupting to African American social and cultural traditions rooted in agriculture. William P. Jones is an assistant professor of history at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. Barrett, Alice Kessler-Harris, David Montgomery, and Nelson Lichtenstein.
Men in African Film & Fiction
Author: Lahoucine Ouzgane
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN: 1847015212
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Fills a gap in the international literature by offering new insights into the heterogeneous ways in which African men are performing, negotiating and experiencing masculinity. Through their analysis of the depictions in film and literature of masculinities in colonial, independent and post-independent Africa, the contributors open some key African texts to a more obviously politicized set of meanings. Collectively, the essays provide space for rethinking current theory on gender and masculinity: - how only some of the most popular theories in masculinity studies in the West hold true in African contexts; - howWestern masculinities react with indigenous masculinities on the continent; - how masculinity and femininity in Africa seem to reside more on a continuum of cultural practices than on absolutely opposite planes; - andhow generation often functions as a more potent metaphor than gender. Lahoucine Ouzgane is Associate Professor of English & Film Studies, University of Alberta, Canada.
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN: 1847015212
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Fills a gap in the international literature by offering new insights into the heterogeneous ways in which African men are performing, negotiating and experiencing masculinity. Through their analysis of the depictions in film and literature of masculinities in colonial, independent and post-independent Africa, the contributors open some key African texts to a more obviously politicized set of meanings. Collectively, the essays provide space for rethinking current theory on gender and masculinity: - how only some of the most popular theories in masculinity studies in the West hold true in African contexts; - howWestern masculinities react with indigenous masculinities on the continent; - how masculinity and femininity in Africa seem to reside more on a continuum of cultural practices than on absolutely opposite planes; - andhow generation often functions as a more potent metaphor than gender. Lahoucine Ouzgane is Associate Professor of English & Film Studies, University of Alberta, Canada.
Africa
Author: Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520078819
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
"Coquery-Vidrovitch's book is not merely good; it's marvellous. It represents the finest product of the Annales tradition of structural history."—Immanuel Wallerstein
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520078819
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
"Coquery-Vidrovitch's book is not merely good; it's marvellous. It represents the finest product of the Annales tradition of structural history."—Immanuel Wallerstein
Industrial Labour in Africa
Author: Britha Mikkelsen
Publisher: Nordic Africa Institute
ISBN: 9789171061584
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Publisher: Nordic Africa Institute
ISBN: 9789171061584
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
The Abongo Abroad
Author: John V. Clune
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
ISBN: 0826521533
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Blending African social history with US foreign relations, John V. Clune documents how ordinary people experienced a major aspect of Cold War diplomacy. The book describes how military-sponsored international travel, especially military training abroad and United Nations peacekeeping deployments in the Sinai and Lebanon, altered Ghanaian service members and their families during the three decades after independence in 1957. Military assistance to Ghana included sponsoring training and education in the United States, and American policymakers imagined that national modernization would result from the personal relationships Ghanaian service members and their families would forge. As an act of faith, American military assistance policy with Ghana remained remarkably consistent despite little evidence that military education and training in the United States produced any measurable results. Merging newly discovered documents from Ghana's armed forces and declassified sources on American military assistance to Africa, this work argues that military-sponsored travel made individual Ghanaians' outlooks on the world more international, just as military assistance planners hoped they would, but the Ghanaian state struggled to turn that new identity into political or economic progress.
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
ISBN: 0826521533
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Blending African social history with US foreign relations, John V. Clune documents how ordinary people experienced a major aspect of Cold War diplomacy. The book describes how military-sponsored international travel, especially military training abroad and United Nations peacekeeping deployments in the Sinai and Lebanon, altered Ghanaian service members and their families during the three decades after independence in 1957. Military assistance to Ghana included sponsoring training and education in the United States, and American policymakers imagined that national modernization would result from the personal relationships Ghanaian service members and their families would forge. As an act of faith, American military assistance policy with Ghana remained remarkably consistent despite little evidence that military education and training in the United States produced any measurable results. Merging newly discovered documents from Ghana's armed forces and declassified sources on American military assistance to Africa, this work argues that military-sponsored travel made individual Ghanaians' outlooks on the world more international, just as military assistance planners hoped they would, but the Ghanaian state struggled to turn that new identity into political or economic progress.
African Programs of U.S. Organizations
Author: United States. Department of State. External Research Division
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description