Gender and plantation labour in Africa : the story of tea pluckers' struggles in Cameroon /

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This book explores the relationship between plantation labour and gender in Africa. Such a study is the more opportune because most of the existing works on plantation labour in Africa seem to have either under-studied or even ignored the changing conceptions of gender on the continent in recent tim...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Konings, Piet
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bamenda, Cameroon : Leiden : Langaa Research and Publishing CIG ; African Studies Centre, ©2012.
Temas:
Plantation workers > Cameroon > Social conditions.
Industrial relations > Cameroon.
Agricultural industries > Cameroon.
Women employees > Cameroon.
Male employees > Cameroon.
Travailleurs des plantations > Cameroun > Conditions sociales.
Relations industrielles > Cameroun.
Industries agricoles > Cameroun.
Personnel féminin > Cameroun.
Personnel masculin > Cameroun.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Knowledge Capital.
Agricultural industries
Industrial relations
Male employees
Women employees
Cameroon
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  • Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Tables; Abbreviations; Map of the Republic of Cameroon; 1. Gender and labour on Cameroon's tea estates; Introduction; Gender in Africa; Gender and tea plucking in Anglophone Cameroon; Gender and labour resistance on Anglophone Cameroon's tea estates; Organisation of the book and research methodology; Notes; 2. Production and marketing policies on Cameroon's tea estates; Introduction; Tea Production in Cameroon; Tea marketing in Cameroon; Notes; Part I
  • The Tole Tea Estate; 3. Female workers; Introduction.
  • Managerial option for female pluckersEthnic/regional origin of female workers; Demographic characteristics of female workers; Remuneration of female workers; Tole Tea women: Wage workers and mothers; Conclusion; Notes; 4. Management of female workers; Introduction; The physical organisation of production; Managerial strategies of labour control; State and labour control; Conclusion; Notes; 5. Female workers and trade unionism; Introduction; Trade unionism on the CDC estates; Shop stewards on the Tole Tea Estate; Participation of female workers in trade unionism; Conclusion; Notes.
  • 6. Informal and collective actions of femaleworkersIntroduction; Actions of female pluckers against managerial efforts toincrease labour productivity; Actions of female workers against managerial effortsto establish control over the labour process; Actions of female workers against managerial effortsto minimise wages and other conditions of service; Conclusion; Notes; Part II -The Ndu Tea Estate; 7. Male orkers; Introduction; Ndu society; Agreement between EAC and the chief of Ndu; The male labour force on the Ndu Tea Estate; Remuneration of male pluckers on the Ndu Tea Estate; Conclusion.
  • Notes8. Management of male workers and theirinformal modes of resistance; Introduction; Labour control regime on the Ndu Tea Estate; Informal actions of male pluckers; Conclusion; Notes; 9. Male workers and trade unionism; Introduction; The emergence and development of trade unionism onthe Ndu Tea Estate; Trade union and collective action of male pluckers, 1958-1991; Conclusion; Notes; Part III
  • The Cameroon tea estates; 10. Privatisation and labour militancy: The of Cameroon's tea estates; Introduction; The privatisation of the CDC tea estates; Growing labour militancy on the Tole Tea Estate.
  • Growing labour militancy on the Ndu Tea EstateConclusion; Notes; References; Index; Back Cover.

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