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Title:Landlords, Tenants and Colonial Social Engineers: The Farm Labour Question in Early Colonial Swaziland
Author:Crush, Jonathan S.ISNI
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.
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