Bringing the Workers Back In: Worker Protest and Popular Intervention in Katanga, 1931–1941

Higginson, John

doi:10.1080/00083968.1988.10804193

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“…The only involvement by religious leaders that had a positive outcome was the support by black Catholic priests for underground workers' organisations (Vellut 2005: 35-36). This led to the official recognition of black workers' organisations in 1941 (Higginson 1988).…”

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Post-war Labour Market Reconstruction : The Case of the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Chi¹

2022

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The Democratic Republic of Congo experienced a merciless war from 1998 to 2002 that seriously affected its labour market, as it did all other aspects of society. The effects on the labour market have aroused various debates. This thesis offers a first analysis of the reconstruction process of the labour market in post-war Congo, and of the roles that key actors involved played in it. It asks the following fundamental question: what are the processes involved in the reconstruction of the post-war Congolese labour market, and how did the main actors affect these processes? The research used a constructivist methodological approach and the extended case method to collect detailed data through field interviews conducted with 109 people in Kinshasa. The data suggest that the past of the Congolese labour market is clearly visible in its post-war recovery processes (2003–2018). While the past weighed heavily on the present, from 2003 to 2011 the Congolese government nevertheless delayed the implementation of reform policies aimed at achieving a functioning labour market. Reforms introduced since then have been blunted by poor implementation processes. Moreover, the inherent weakness of Congo’s labour market institutions deepened the lack of impact of the reconstruction attempts. Likewise, the private sector did not contribute substantially to efforts at creating an effective labour market. Entering this landscape, many Congolese employees struggled to achieve integration into the formal labour market. The main argument of this thesis is that the post-war Congolese labour market has experienced an extended reconstruction due to delayed and poorly implemented labour market policies. On a more positive note, this study demonstrates the usefulness of Peck’s theory of labour market social regulation as an efficient theoretical tool in evaluating a problematic transition such as that experienced in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

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Post-war Labour Market Reconstruction : The Case of the Democratic Republic of the Congo

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DEVELOPMENTAL COLONIALISM AND KITAWALA POLICY IN 1950s BELGIAN CONGO

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2020

Religion, Colonization and Decolonization in Congo, 1885-1960. Religion, Colonisation Et Décolonisation Au Congo, 1885-1960

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Though much has been written about Kitawala, a Central African offshoot of Jehovah's Witnesses, in the Belgian Congo, little has been produced on the colonial government's postwar policy towards the religious movement. Kitawala was a popular religious movement that frequently stood in tension with established power figures, African and European alike, because its pastors prophesied a millennial event at which foreign rule and exploitation would end. Drawing on the Belgian colonial record, this thesis elucidates the ways in which colonial Kitawala policy changed significantly in the 1950s in line with postwar developmental colonialism that sought to expand imperial resources while also re-legitimising colonial rule. In light of anti-colonial, nationalist movements emerging across the Africa, colonial officials hoped to co-opt the majority of Kitawalists with a wide range of development programs, while repressing Kitawalists who remained implacable critics of Belgian rule.

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Bringing the Workers Back In: Worker Protest and Popular Intervention in Katanga, 1931–1941

Cited by 2 publications

References 11 publications

Post-war Labour Market Reconstruction : The Case of the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Post-war Labour Market Reconstruction : The Case of the Democratic Republic of the Congo

DEVELOPMENTAL COLONIALISM AND KITAWALA POLICY IN 1950s BELGIAN CONGO

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