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Decolonization and African society: the labor question in French and British Africa
Frederick Cooper-
Frontmatter
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List of tables and figure (page x)
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Preface (page xi)
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List of abbreviations (page xvi)
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Map of French and British colonial Africa (page xviii)
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1 Introduction (page 1)
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Part I: The dangers of expansion and the dilemmas of reform (page 21)
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Introduction (page 23)
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2 The labor question unposed (page 25)
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3 Reforming imperialism, 1935-1940 (page 57)
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4 Forced labor, strike movements, and the idea of development, 1940-1945 (page 110)
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Conclusion: posing the labor question (page 167)
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Part II: Imperial fantasies and colonial crises (page 171)
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Introduction (page 173)
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5 Imperial plans (page 176)
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6 Crises (page 225)
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Conclusion: modernity, backwardness, and the colonial state (page 261)
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Part III: The imagining of a working class (page 271)
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Introduction (page 273)
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7 The systematic approach: the French Code du Travail (page 277)
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8 Family wages and industrial relations in British Africa (page 323)
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9 Internationalists, intellectuals and the labor question (page 361)
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Conclusion: labor and the modernizing state (page 383)
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Part IV: Devolving power and abdicating responsibility (page 387)
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Introduction (page 389)
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10 The burden of declining empire (page 392)
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11 Delinking colony and metropole: French Africa in the 1950s (page 407)
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12 Nation, international trade unionism, and race: anglophone Africa in the 1950s (page 432)
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Conclusion: the social meaning of decolonization (page 451)
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Conclusion (page 455)
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13 The wages of modernity and the price of sovereignty (page 457)
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Notes (page 473)
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Bibliography (page 627)
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Index (page 657)
Journal Abbreviation | Label | URL |
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AFSR | 43.2 (Sep. 2000): 150-151 | http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-0206%28200009%2943%3A2%3C150%3ADAASTL%3E2.0.CO%3B2-K |
AHR | 103.1 (Feb. 1998): 248-249 | http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-8762%28199802%29103%3A1%3C248%3ADAASTL%3E2.0.CO%3B2-G |
CJAS | 32.1 (1998): 174-180 | http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0008-3968%281998%2932%3A1%3C174%3AT%22QILC%3E2.0.CO%3B2-W |
JAFH | 38.3 (1997): 515-517 | http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0021-8537%281997%2938%3A3%3C515%3AALH%3E2.0.CO%3B2-F |
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Published: 1996
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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