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Decolonization and African society: the labor question in French and British Africa

Frederick Cooper
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  • Contents

  • Reviews

  • Frontmatter
  • List of tables and figure (page x)
  • Preface (page xi)
  • List of abbreviations (page xvi)
  • Map of French and British colonial Africa (page xviii)
    • 1 Introduction (page 1)
  • Part I: The dangers of expansion and the dilemmas of reform (page 21)
    • Introduction (page 23)
    • 2 The labor question unposed (page 25)
    • 3 Reforming imperialism, 1935-1940 (page 57)
    • 4 Forced labor, strike movements, and the idea of development, 1940-1945 (page 110)
    • Conclusion: posing the labor question (page 167)
  • Part II: Imperial fantasies and colonial crises (page 171)
    • Introduction (page 173)
    • 5 Imperial plans (page 176)
    • 6 Crises (page 225)
    • Conclusion: modernity, backwardness, and the colonial state (page 261)
  • Part III: The imagining of a working class (page 271)
    • Introduction (page 273)
    • 7 The systematic approach: the French Code du Travail (page 277)
    • 8 Family wages and industrial relations in British Africa (page 323)
    • 9 Internationalists, intellectuals and the labor question (page 361)
    • Conclusion: labor and the modernizing state (page 383)
  • Part IV: Devolving power and abdicating responsibility (page 387)
    • Introduction (page 389)
    • 10 The burden of declining empire (page 392)
    • 11 Delinking colony and metropole: French Africa in the 1950s (page 407)
    • 12 Nation, international trade unionism, and race: anglophone Africa in the 1950s (page 432)
    • Conclusion: the social meaning of decolonization (page 451)
    • Conclusion (page 455)
    • 13 The wages of modernity and the price of sovereignty (page 457)
  • Notes (page 473)
  • Bibliography (page 627)
  • Index (page 657)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
AFSR 43.2 (Sep. 2000): 150-151 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-0206%28200009%2943%3A2%3C150%3ADAASTL%3E2.0.CO%3B2-K
AHR 103.1 (Feb. 1998): 248-249 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-8762%28199802%29103%3A1%3C248%3ADAASTL%3E2.0.CO%3B2-G
CJAS 32.1 (1998): 174-180 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0008-3968%281998%2932%3A1%3C174%3AT%22QILC%3E2.0.CO%3B2-W
JAFH 38.3 (1997): 515-517 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0021-8537%281997%2938%3A3%3C515%3AALH%3E2.0.CO%3B2-F
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Published: 1996
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN(s)
  • 9780521562515 (hardcover)
  • 9780521566001 (paper)
  • 9780511089640 (ebook)
Series
  • ACLS Fellows’ Publications
Subject
  • African
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