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Periodical article | Leiden University 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?. |