Author: Merran Fraenkel
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429950535
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
Originally published in 1964, this book analyses the unique type of social stratification which is more akin to a social class system in Monrovia, Liberia's capital. Liberia, established in 1847 has no history of rule by a colonial power and is of perculiar sociological interest, having been governed until the first half of the twentieth century by a minority group of immigrants from America and their descendants. The bulk of the population, however, is made up of members of about 20 tribes, between whom and the American descendants a caste-like social system has developed.
Tribe and Class in Monrovia
Author: Merran Fraenkel
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429950535
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
Originally published in 1964, this book analyses the unique type of social stratification which is more akin to a social class system in Monrovia, Liberia's capital. Liberia, established in 1847 has no history of rule by a colonial power and is of perculiar sociological interest, having been governed until the first half of the twentieth century by a minority group of immigrants from America and their descendants. The bulk of the population, however, is made up of members of about 20 tribes, between whom and the American descendants a caste-like social system has developed.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429950535
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
Originally published in 1964, this book analyses the unique type of social stratification which is more akin to a social class system in Monrovia, Liberia's capital. Liberia, established in 1847 has no history of rule by a colonial power and is of perculiar sociological interest, having been governed until the first half of the twentieth century by a minority group of immigrants from America and their descendants. The bulk of the population, however, is made up of members of about 20 tribes, between whom and the American descendants a caste-like social system has developed.
Tribe and Class in Monrovia
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Work and Community Among West African Migrant Workers Since the Nineteenth Century
Author: Diane Frost
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 9780853235231
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
"This book will be of interest to academic and general readers concerned with social and economic history, African history, Black studies, Race and Ethnic Studies, Commonwealth and imperial history."--BOOK JACKET.
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 9780853235231
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
"This book will be of interest to academic and general readers concerned with social and economic history, African history, Black studies, Race and Ethnic Studies, Commonwealth and imperial history."--BOOK JACKET.
The Statesman's Year-Book 1984-85
Author: J. Paxton
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230271138
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1717
Book Description
The classic reference work that provides annually updated information on the countries of the world.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230271138
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1717
Book Description
The classic reference work that provides annually updated information on the countries of the world.
The Statesman's Year-Book 1985-86
Author: J. Paxton
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230271146
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1710
Book Description
The classic reference work that provides annually updated information on the countries of the world.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230271146
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1710
Book Description
The classic reference work that provides annually updated information on the countries of the world.
1985–1986
Author: John Paxton
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3112420721
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1719
Book Description
No detailed description available for "1985-1986".
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3112420721
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1719
Book Description
No detailed description available for "1985-1986".
Liberia, Geographical Mosaics of the Land and the People
Author: Karl-Heinz Hasselmann
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 300
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 300
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West Africa
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Category : Africa, West
Languages : en
Pages : 742
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Category : Africa, West
Languages : en
Pages : 742
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Outsourcing African Labor
Author: Jeffrey Gunn
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110680335
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
By the late eighteenth century, the ever-increasing British need for local labour in West Africa based on malarial, climatic, and manpower concerns led to a willingness of the British and Kru (West African labourers from Liberia) to experiment with free wage labour contracts. The Kru’s familiarity with European trade on the Kru Coast (modern Liberia) from at least the sixteenth century played a fundamental role in their decision to expand their wage earning opportunities under contract with the British. The establishment of Freetown in 1792 enabled the Kru to engage in systematized work for British merchants, ship captains, and naval officers. Kru workers increased their migration to Freetown establishing what appears to be their first permanent labouring community beyond their homeland on the Kru Coast. Their community in Freetown known as Krutown provided a readily available labour pool and ensured their regular employment on board British commercial ships and Royal Navy vessels circumnavigating the Atlantic and beyond. In the process, the Kru established a network of Krutowns and community settlements in many Atlantic ports including Cape Coast, Fernando Po, Ascension Island, Cape of Good Hope, and in the British Caribbean in Demerara and Port of Spain. Outsourcing African Labour in the Nineteenth Century: Kru Migratory Workers in Global Ports, Estates and Battlefields structures the fragmented history of Kru workers into a coherent global framework. The migration of Kru workers in the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans, in commercial and military contexts represents a movement of free wage labour that transformed the Kru Coast into a homeland that nurtured diasporas and staffed a vast network of workplaces. As the Kru formed permanent and transient working communities around the Atlantic and in the British Caribbean, they underwent several phases of social, political, and economic innovation, which ultimately overcame a decline in employment in their homeland on the Kru Coast by the end of the nineteenth century by increasing employment in their diaspora. There were unique features of the Kru migrant labour force that characterized all phases of its expansion. The migration was virtually entirely male, and at a time when slavery was widespread and the slave trade was subjected to the abolition campaign of the British Navy, Kru workers were free with an expertise in manning seaborne craft and porterage. Kru carried letters from previous captains as testimonies of their reliability and work ethic or they worked under the supervision of experienced workers who effectively served as references for employment. They worked for contractual periods of between six months and five years for which they were paid wages. The Kru thereby stand out as an anomaly in the history of Atlantic trade when compared with the much larger diasporas of enslaved Africans.
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110680335
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
By the late eighteenth century, the ever-increasing British need for local labour in West Africa based on malarial, climatic, and manpower concerns led to a willingness of the British and Kru (West African labourers from Liberia) to experiment with free wage labour contracts. The Kru’s familiarity with European trade on the Kru Coast (modern Liberia) from at least the sixteenth century played a fundamental role in their decision to expand their wage earning opportunities under contract with the British. The establishment of Freetown in 1792 enabled the Kru to engage in systematized work for British merchants, ship captains, and naval officers. Kru workers increased their migration to Freetown establishing what appears to be their first permanent labouring community beyond their homeland on the Kru Coast. Their community in Freetown known as Krutown provided a readily available labour pool and ensured their regular employment on board British commercial ships and Royal Navy vessels circumnavigating the Atlantic and beyond. In the process, the Kru established a network of Krutowns and community settlements in many Atlantic ports including Cape Coast, Fernando Po, Ascension Island, Cape of Good Hope, and in the British Caribbean in Demerara and Port of Spain. Outsourcing African Labour in the Nineteenth Century: Kru Migratory Workers in Global Ports, Estates and Battlefields structures the fragmented history of Kru workers into a coherent global framework. The migration of Kru workers in the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans, in commercial and military contexts represents a movement of free wage labour that transformed the Kru Coast into a homeland that nurtured diasporas and staffed a vast network of workplaces. As the Kru formed permanent and transient working communities around the Atlantic and in the British Caribbean, they underwent several phases of social, political, and economic innovation, which ultimately overcame a decline in employment in their homeland on the Kru Coast by the end of the nineteenth century by increasing employment in their diaspora. There were unique features of the Kru migrant labour force that characterized all phases of its expansion. The migration was virtually entirely male, and at a time when slavery was widespread and the slave trade was subjected to the abolition campaign of the British Navy, Kru workers were free with an expertise in manning seaborne craft and porterage. Kru carried letters from previous captains as testimonies of their reliability and work ethic or they worked under the supervision of experienced workers who effectively served as references for employment. They worked for contractual periods of between six months and five years for which they were paid wages. The Kru thereby stand out as an anomaly in the history of Atlantic trade when compared with the much larger diasporas of enslaved Africans.
Sierra Leone Studies
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Category : Sierra Leone
Languages : en
Pages : 254
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Category : Sierra Leone
Languages : en
Pages : 254
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