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

Cooper, Frederick, 1947-

Year: 1996.

Publisher: Cambridge University Press.

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table of contents

Frontmatter

List of tables and figure

Preface

List of abbreviations

Map of French and British colonial Africa

1 Introduction

Part I: The dangers of expansion and the dilemmas of reform

Introduction

2 The labor question unposed

3 Reforming imperialism, 1935-1940

4 Forced labor, strike movements, and the idea of development, 1940-1945

Conclusion: posing the labor question

Part II: Imperial fantasies and colonial crises

Introduction

5 Imperial plans

6 Crises

Conclusion: modernity, backwardness, and the colonial state

Part III: The imagining of a working class

Introduction

7 The systematic approach: the French Code du Travail

8 Family wages and industrial relations in British Africa

9 Internationalists, intellectuals and the labor question

Conclusion: labor and the modernizing state

Part IV: Devolving power and abdicating responsibility

Introduction

10 The burden of declining empire

11 Delinking colony and metropole: French Africa in the 1950s

12 Nation, international trade unionism, and race: anglophone Africa in the 1950s

Conclusion: the social meaning of decolonization

Conclusion

13 The wages of modernity and the price of sovereignty

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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Title:

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

Author:

Cooper, Frederick, 1947-

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Decolonization and African society : the labor question in French and British Africa Frederick Cooper.
Cooper, Frederick, 1947-
Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1996.

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Subject Headings:

• Labor -- Africa -- History -- 20th century
• Labor movement -- Africa -- History -- 20th century
• Labor laws and legislation -- Africa -- History -- 20th century
• Decolonization -- Africa -- History -- 20th century
• Labor unions -- Africa -- History -- 20th century
• France -- Colonies -- Africa
• Great Britain -- Colonies -- Africa
• Africa -- Colonial influence

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