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Supply, control and organization of African labour in Rhodesia
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Luke Malaba's overview of the history of African labour control and organization from the 1930s to the 1970s highlights some of the institutional mechanisms of labour exploitation which were at the root of the whole settler colonial system and which must soon come under review by the new government. He offers a critique of the dualist work on African migrant labour but also points to some of the limits of recent ‘radical’ writings (see Bibliographic Noteat end) which, whilst recognizing the structural integration of the African ‘reserves’ with the settler capitalist economy, fail to break away from an overly economistic conceptualization. It is the political framework which has defined and maintained the form of migration, Malaba argues. Moreover, workers organizations themselves have divorced the political from the economic aspects of the struggle against capital. The author concludes that the consciousness of workers does not automatically result from their dialectical position in relation tothe capital‐owning class but needs to be aroused and directed towards the struggle for complete emancipation. The relative divorce between workers organizations and the national movements he poses as a key problem for the future.
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Arrighi G. and Saul John S.. 1973. . Essays in the Political Economy of Africa . , New York : : Monthly Review Press. .
van Onselen Charles. . 1976. . Chibaro: African Mine Labour in Southern Rhodesia, 1900–1933 . , London : : Pluto Press. .
1975. . ‘Black Workers in Central African Industry: A Critical Essay on the Historiography and Sociology of Rhodesia. . Journal of Southern African Studies . , Vol. 1((2))
Phimister I. and van Onselen C.. 1978. . Studies in the History of African Mine Labour in Colonial Zimbabwe . , Gwelo : : Mambo Press. .
Palmer R.. 1977. . Land and Racial Domination in Rhodesia . , London : : Heinemann. .
Barber W.. 1961. . The Economy of British Central Africa . , Oxford : : Oxford University Press. .
Mitchell J.C.. 1961. . “‘Wage Labour & African Population Movements in Central Africa’. ”. In Essays on African Population . , Edited by: Barbour K.M. and Prothero R.M.. London : : Routledge. .
Harris’. . 1975. . ‘Industrial Workers in Rhodesia, 1946–72: Working Class Elites or Lumpenproletariat?’. . Journal of Southern African Studies . , Vol. 1((2))