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Author:

Guthrie, Zachary Kagan, author.

Title:

Bound for work : labor, mobility, and colonial rule in central Mozambique, 1940-1965 / Zachary Kagan Guthrie.

Publisher:

University of Virginia Press,

Copyright Date:

2018

Description:

xi, 225 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Migrant labor--Mozambique--History.
Labor--Mozambique--History.
Labor mobility--Mozambique--History.
Forced labor--Mozambique--History.
Foreign workers, Mozambican--Africa, Southern--History.
Mozambique--Colonial influence.
Mozambique--Economic conditions--To 1975.
Colonial influence.
Economic history.
Forced labor.
Foreign workers, Mozambican.
Labor.
Labor mobility.
Migrant labor.
Africa, Southern.
Mozambique.
To 1975
History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-217) and index.

Contents:

Introduction -- Forced labor and forced movement in central Mozambique : "contract" labor and colonial rule, 1890-1960 -- The fruits of their labors : mobile workers from central Mozambique, 1942-1961 -- The ties that bind : gender, labor mobility, and social conflict -- Colonialism and its forms of control : labor, local authority, and the colonial state -- Imaginary laws and colonial realities : labor mobility and the fractures of the colonial state -- New horizons : labor and reform, change and continuity, 1945-1965 -- Conclusion.

Series:

Reconsiderations in southern African history

ISBN:

9780813941554
0813941555
0813941547
9780813941547

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1035364154

LCCN:

2018024174

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)