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Periodical article Periodical article Leiden University catalogue Leiden University catalogue WorldCat catalogue WorldCat
Title:The political consciousness of African urban workers: a review of recent publications
Author:Gerold-Scheepers, Th. J.
Year:1978
Periodical:African Perspectives
Issue:2
Pages:83-98
Language:English
Geographic term:Africa
Subjects:industrial workers
political consciousness
Abstract:Survey of recent literature dealing with the political consciousness of African urban workers, starting with the labour aristocracy thesis, discussing some theoretical and empirical objections to the labour aristocracy thesis, and subsequently reviewing studies on the main dimensions in the debate which followed the labour aristocracy thesis: the political consciousness of urban workers, their organisation and their action. Notes, ref.