The colonial state and wage labor in postwar sierra leone, 1945-1960: Attempts at remaking the working class

International Labor and Working-Class History

Volumn , Issue 52, 1997, Pages 87-105

  Abdullah, Ibrahim ^a  

^a ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0031481178     PISSN: 01475479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0147547900006955     Document Type: Article

References (7)

1. See Frederick Cooper, "From Free Labor to Family Allowances: Labor and African Society in Colonial Discourse," American Ethnologist 16 (1989):745-64; Cooper, "The Senegalese General Strike of 1946 and the Labor Question in Post-War French West Africa," Canadian Journal of African Studies 24 (1990):165-215; Ahmad Sikainga, "Post-World War II Labor Unrest and the Remaking of the Sudanese Working Class," paper presented at the American Historical Association annual meeting, (Chicago, 1995).
2. See Frederick Cooper, "From Free Labor to Family Allowances: Labor and African Society in Colonial Discourse," American Ethnologist 16 (1989):745-64; Cooper, "The Senegalese General Strike of 1946 and the Labor Question in Post-War French West Africa," Canadian Journal of African Studies 24 (1990):165-215; Ahmad Sikainga, "Post-World War II Labor Unrest and the Remaking of the Sudanese Working Class," paper presented at the American Historical Association annual meeting, (Chicago, 1995).
3. See Frederick Cooper, "From Free Labor to Family Allowances: Labor and African Society in Colonial Discourse," American Ethnologist 16 (1989):745-64; Cooper, "The Senegalese General Strike of 1946 and the Labor Question in Post-War French West Africa," Canadian Journal of African Studies 24 (1990):165-215; Ahmad Sikainga, "Post-World War II Labor Unrest and the Remaking of the Sudanese Working Class," paper presented at the American Historical Association annual meeting, (Chicago, 1995).
4. For a summary of the literature on the British working class see Mike Savage and Andrew Miles, The Remaking of the British Working Class 1840-1940 (London, 1994).
5. Frederick Cooper, On the African Waterfront: Urban Disorder and the Transformation of Work in Colonial Mombasa (New Haven, 1987); Peter Weiler, "Forming Responsible Trade Unions: The Colonial Office, Colonial Labor, and the Trades Union Congress," Radical History Review 28-30 (1984):367-92.
6. Frederick Cooper, On the African Waterfront: Urban Disorder and the Transformation of Work in Colonial Mombasa (New Haven, 1987); Peter Weiler, "Forming Responsible Trade Unions: The Colonial Office, Colonial Labor, and the Trades Union Congress," Radical History Review 28-30 (1984):367-92.
7. See Ibrahim Abdullah, "'Liberty or Death': Working-Class Agitation and the Labor Question in Colonial Freetown, 1938-1939," International Review of Social History 40 (1995):195-221.