Abstract
This chapter shows that the story of Africans and labour in the British empire, throughout the entire period from the 1830s to the 1950s, is one that connects to, but diverges from, the story of labour in the British Isles, for the particularity of the African labourer in British discourse stood alongside the general concern with the significance of wage labour. And the history unfolds in space as much as in time: the question of physical displacement of workers in regional and imperial terms remained central to British thinking about African labour.
Original language | English (US) |
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Title of host publication | Black Experience and the Empire |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9780191700569 |
ISBN (Print) | 019926029X, 9780199290673 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Oct 3 2011 |
Keywords
- African labour
- British empire
- Colonies
- Forced labour
- Labour policy
- Slavery
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Arts and Humanities