Traditional and Contemporary Patterns of Sabo Labor Migration

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Title:	Traditional and Contemporary Patterns of Sabo Labor Migration
Author:	McEvoy, Frederick D.
Year:	1970
Periodical:	Liberian Studies Journal
Volume:	2
Issue:	2
Pages:	153-166
Language:	English
Geographic term:	Liberia
Subjects:	labour migration History and Exploration Labor and Employment Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) Urbanization and Migration
Abstract:	Describes both traditional and contemporary uses of kinship as a means of organizing wagelabor migration among the Sabo, one of the smaller Grebo-speaking tribes of the southeastern hinterland. The extension of traditional kinship usages to present-day wage-working situations appears to have enabled the Sabo to enjoy a measure of cultural continuity during a period when their society has been increasingly affected by the problems of cultural change and modernization. Conclusions are tentative, but within limits, this description of Sabo wage-labor migration may be considered to be generally characteristic of other hinterland Grebo tribes. The paper is based on field research conducted between October 1966 and February 1968 in the towns of the Sabo Chiefdom in Grand Gedeh county, and at the Firestone Plantation in Maryland county. Notes, tables, figure.