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Periodical article Periodical article Leiden University catalogue Leiden University catalogue WorldCat catalogue WorldCat
Title:From tribe to mine in central and southern Africa
Author:Allen, V.L.
Year:1963
Periodical:Free Labour World
Issue:160
Page:3
Language:English
Geographic terms:South Africa
Rhodesia and Nyasaland
Subjects:black workers
labour recruitment
Abstract:The author examined, during a visit to central and southern Africa, the ways in which employers recruit African workers and mould them into an efficient work force. He thought he would see the pattern of behaviour he had witnessed in east Africa - one in which the transition from tribe to industry created conflict and bitterness among Africans and endorsed the Europe-an image of the lazy African. But he did not see that pattern. Instead he was tribal Africans making a quick, apparently frictionless switch into industrial workers, so that in their general attitudes to management and work they are largely indistinguishable from workers in Britain. This phenomenon raises significant industrial and social issues. He poses the question: Are the workers he saw black Europeans and if they are, how did it happen and what has become of their traditional values?.
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