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Periodical article | Leiden University catalogue | WorldCat |
Title: | Migrant labour in Namibia |
Author: | Moorsam, R. |
Year: | 1976 |
Periodical: | Africa Perspective |
Issue: | 3 |
Pages: | 17-29 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Namibia |
Subjects: | Ovambo labour migration |
Abstract: | This article consists of the central sections of a paper on the origins of Ovambo migrant labour in Namibia, itself a part of a much larger unpublished essay on the Namibian contract labour system. It describes the period 1850-1915, which was a period of structural underdevelopment of the mode of production, which reduced a substantial proportion of family producers to the margin of subsistence. This led to the migration of Ovambo labourers to the south, shortly after 1900. Notes. |