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Title: | Landlords, Tenants and Colonial Social Engineers: The Farm Labour Question in Early Colonial Swaziland |
Author: | Crush, Jonathan S. |
Year: | 1985 |
Periodical: | Journal of Southern African Studies |
Volume: | 11 |
Issue: | 2 |
Period: | April |
Pages: | 235-257 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Swaziland - Eswatini |
Subjects: | farmers colonial policy land agricultural workers Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment colonialism Labor and Employment History and Exploration |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/2636526 |
Abstract: | The Swaziland land partition of 1907-8, by means of which over 60 per cent of the surface area of the country passed into colonial and settler hands, was intended to be as much a labour as a land partition. This article deals with an associated piece of colonial manipulation integral to the planning and execution of the partition, to which less attention has been paid: the establishment of a state-regulated system of labour tenancy on the white farms to provide a weak agricultural sector with a cheap, stable and tightly controlled labour force. This article shows that, while many households did decide to remain on white farms, this did not signal any desire to submit to the terms of farm labour, since household immobility was largely a result of social conditions internal to Swazi society. - Notes, tab. |