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The Dialectics of Colonial Labour Control: Class Struggles in the Nigerian Coal Industry, 1914-1949

The Dialectics of Colonial Labour Control: Class Struggles in the Nigerian Coal Industry, 1914-1949 The Dialectics of Colonial Labour Control: Class Struggles in the Nigerian Coal Industry, 1914-1949 CAROLYN A. BROWN The City College of the City University of New York, New York, U. S. A. ABSTRACT This paper is a case study of the labour movement at the Enugu Government Colliery, Nigeria from its opening in 1914 until a massacre of 21 striking miners in 1949. It focuses on the emergence of worker consciousness in a context of overlapping ethnic and class-based affilia- tions and its expression in acts of collective and individual protest. The workers struggled against a complex system of labour control emanating from both inside and outside the industry. Through confrontations with the state, they came to understand their own importance to the national and regional economy. Introduction SINCE THE 1970S SEVERAL STUDIES of West African mineworkers have made important contributions to the literature on African industrial workers, a field which is dominated by studies of South African mining and manufacturing workers. The works of Jeff Crisp, Bill Freund, and James Silver have refocused studies of the African mineworker by looking at miners in predominantly agro-export economies dominated by peasant producers. Their work, coming in the post-independence decade, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Asian and African Studies (in 2002 continued as African and Asian Studies) Brill

The Dialectics of Colonial Labour Control: Class Struggles in the Nigerian Coal Industry, 1914-1949

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Brill
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© 1988 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
ISSN
0021-9096
eISSN
1568-5217
DOI
10.1163/156852188X00042
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Abstract

The Dialectics of Colonial Labour Control: Class Struggles in the Nigerian Coal Industry, 1914-1949 CAROLYN A. BROWN The City College of the City University of New York, New York, U. S. A. ABSTRACT This paper is a case study of the labour movement at the Enugu Government Colliery, Nigeria from its opening in 1914 until a massacre of 21 striking miners in 1949. It focuses on the emergence of worker consciousness in a context of overlapping ethnic and class-based affilia- tions and its expression in acts of collective and individual protest. The workers struggled against a complex system of labour control emanating from both inside and outside the industry. Through confrontations with the state, they came to understand their own importance to the national and regional economy. Introduction SINCE THE 1970S SEVERAL STUDIES of West African mineworkers have made important contributions to the literature on African industrial workers, a field which is dominated by studies of South African mining and manufacturing workers. The works of Jeff Crisp, Bill Freund, and James Silver have refocused studies of the African mineworker by looking at miners in predominantly agro-export economies dominated by peasant producers. Their work, coming in the post-independence decade,

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Journal of Asian and African Studies (in 2002 continued as African and Asian Studies)Brill

Published: Jan 1, 1988

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