Colonial Labour Internationalized: Portugal and the Decolonization Momentum (1945–1975)

Jerónimo, Miguel Bandeira; Monteiro, José Pedro

doi:10.1080/07075332.2019.1609066

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“…Migration within Africa soon became a strong factor for spatial development, but also a profitable business for recruiters and colonial governments of colonies with a labour surplus, such as Portuguese Mozambique (Juif and Frankema 2018;Jerónimo and Monteiro 2020). Extremely abusive forms of recruitment led to Legal segmentation and early colonialism in sub-Saharan Africa 625 high rates of death and sickness among recruited workers before and upon arrival with their new employers, causing anger and resistance on the part of the African population, as well as employers' frequent irritation because of economic losses and negative effects on future recruitment.…”

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Legal segmentation and early colonialism in sub‐Saharan Africa: Informality and the colonial exploitative legal employment standard

Fechner

2022

International Labour Review

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Labour markets in sub‐Saharan Africa are characterized by a gendered division between formal and informal sectors. This article argues that this division originates from a rationality introduced by racist and gendered colonial legal segmentation, produced by a variety of legal regimes in and beyond employment law. Labour market segmentation in postcolonial settings cannot be understood or overcome without analysing the specific colonial institutional origins of the commodification of labour. In sub‐Saharan Africa, the “colonial exploitative legal employment standard” that commodified labour focused on black African male employees for European employers, excluding or marginalizing women and domestic labour relations.

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Section: Recruitment and Labour Migrationmentioning

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Legal segmentation and early colonialism in sub‐Saharan Africa: Informality and the colonial exploitative legal employment standard

Fechner

2022

International Labour Review

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“…Si les migrations à l'intérieur du continent africain sont rapidement devenues un puissant moteur de développement spatioéconomique, elles constituaient aussi une activité commerciale rentable pour les recruteurs et les gouvernements coloniaux disposant d'une réserve de maind'oeuvre abondante, par exemple au Mozambique (Juif et Frankema, 2018;Jerónimo et Monteiro, 2020). Du fait des conditions de recrutement souvent déplorables, de nombreux travailleurs décédaient ou tombaient malades avant même de parvenir jusqu'à leur nouvel employeur, ou à leur arrivée chez celuici.…”

Section: Recrutement Et Migrations De Main-d'oeuvreunclassified

Segmentation juridique et colonialisme en Afrique subsaharienne: l'informalité comme héritage d'une norme du travail basée sur l'exploitation

Fechner¹

2022

Revue Int du Travail

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Imagining a Better Future: Anti-colonial Protest and Social Debates in Santo Antão, Cabo Verde, 1945–1975

Keese¹

2020

Itinerario

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How did the populations of a remote Cape Verdean island—Santo Antão—construct and formulate their goals of emancipation and social reform in the late colonial period? This article revisits the experiences of anti-colonial mobilisation in the island in the late 1960s, bringing them together with other narratives of social needs formulated by Santo Antão's populations. Those include the fears of being recruited for plantation labour in São Tomé e Príncipe, the objective of obtaining the improvement of social infrastructure, and the local struggles for water that became again more acute between 1945 and independence. The article shows that local experiences of Cape Verdean populations, of both the islands’ elite and local peasants, sharecroppers and fishermen, were much more complex than a simple, straightforward narrative of nationalist sympathies and activity. The internal conflicts outlined here also point to the numerous struggles that would shake Santo Antão's society after independence.

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Colonial Labour Internationalized: Portugal and the Decolonization Momentum (1945–1975)

Cited by 9 publications

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Legal segmentation and early colonialism in sub‐Saharan Africa: Informality and the colonial exploitative legal employment standard

Legal segmentation and early colonialism in sub‐Saharan Africa: Informality and the colonial exploitative legal employment standard

Segmentation juridique et colonialisme en Afrique subsaharienne: l'informalité comme héritage d'une norme du travail basée sur l'exploitation

Imagining a Better Future: Anti-colonial Protest and Social Debates in Santo Antão, Cabo Verde, 1945–1975

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