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    Gender and Plantation Labour in Africa: The Story of Tea Pluckers� Struggles in Cameroon
    Gender and Plantation Labour in Africa: The Story of Tea Pluckers� Struggles in Cameroon
    Gender and Plantation Labour in Africa: The Story of Tea Pluckers� Struggles in Cameroon
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    Gender and Plantation Labour in Africa: The Story of Tea Pluckers� Struggles in Cameroon

    By Piet Konings

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    This book explores the relationship between plantation labour and gender in Africa. Such a study is the more opportune because most of the existing works on plantation labour in Africa seem to have either under-studied or even ignored the changing conceptions of gender on the continent in recent times. One of the book s major concerns is to demonstrate that the introduction of plantation labour during colonial rule in Africa has had significant consequences for gender roles and relations within and beyond the capitalist labour process. The book focuses on two tea estates in Anglophone Cameroon. A study of these estates is particularly interesting in that one of them employs mainly female pluckers while the other employs mainly male pluckers. This allows for an examination of any variations in male and female workers modes of resistance to the control and exploitation they meet in the labour process. Such a comparative analysis is helpful in assessing the widespread managerial assumption on tea estates that female pluckers tend to be more productive and docile than male pluckers.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLangaa RPCIG
    Release dateJul 27, 2012
    ISBN9789956728251
    Gender and Plantation Labour in Africa: The Story of Tea Pluckers� Struggles in Cameroon
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    Piet Konings

    Piet Konings is a sociologist of development and a senior researcher at the African Studies Centre in Leiden (The Netherlands). He has published widely on socio-political and economic developments in Ghana and Cameroon. His most recent books include Trajectoires de Libération en Afrique Contemporaine (Karthala, 2000), Negotiating an Anglophone Identity: A Study of the Politics of Recognition and Representation in Cameroon (Brill, 2003), and Crisis and Creativity: Exploring the Wealth of the African Neighbourhood (Brill, 2006).

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