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Title:Transnational networks and internal divisions in central Mozambique: an historical perspective from the colonial period
Authors:Newitt, MalynISNI
Tornimbeni, CorradoISNI
Year:2008
Periodical:Cahiers d'études africaines
Volume:48
Issue:192
Pages:707-740
Language:English
Geographic term:Mozambique
Subjects:forced labour
labour migration
social conditions
colonial policy
colonial period
Abstract:From 1890 to the 1930s the Portuguese colony of Mozambique developed as a number of institutionally and economically separate regions. The rule of concession companies and the economic ties that developed with neighbouring British colonies meant that internal relations between region and region were often non-existent. After 1930 colonial rule in the Beira District of Mozambique both consolidated and altered people's relations with the State and the territory. The forced labour regime was reinforced by limitations on people's mobility and by the institution of labour reserves, which in turn consolidated the imbalances in the political economy and created internal boundaries that were often more difficult to cross than those met with on the traditional labour migration routes. These differences were reflected in the internal colonial division of labour between the different economic interests, in the different patterns of employment and treatment of the African workers and in the different way Africans were contracted for labour in the colonial enterprises. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. in English and French. [Journal abstract]
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