LEADER 04955nam 2200661Ia 450 001 9910462357303321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-283-59330-0 010 $a9786613905758 010 $a9956-728-25-X 010 $a9956-728-12-8 035 $a(CKB)2670000000256534 035 $a(EBL)1919397 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000737543 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11455700 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000737543 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10789145 035 $a(PQKB)10045985 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1919397 035 $a(OCoLC)814096609 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse22827 035 $a(PPN)187343624 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1919397 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10597075 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL390575 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000256534 100 $a20120921d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aGender and plantation labour in Africa$b[electronic resource] $ethe story of tea pluckers' struggles in Cameroon /$fPiet Konings 210 $aBamenda, Cameroon $cLangaa Research & Publishing$d2012 215 $a1 online resource (308 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a9956-727-30-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover; 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 327 $aManagerial option for female pluckers Ethnic/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 327 $a6. Informal and collective actions of female workers Introduction; Actions of female pluckers against managerial efforts to increase labour productivity; Actions of female workers against managerial efforts to establish control over the labour process; Actions of female workers against managerial efforts to minimise wages and other conditions of service; Conclusion; Notes; Part II -The Ndu Tea Estate; 7.Male workers; 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 327 $aNotes 8. Management of male workers and their informal 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 on the 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 327 $aGrowing labour militancy on the Ndu Tea Estate Conclusion; Notes; References; Index; Back Cover 330 $aThis 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 times. One of the book's major concerns is to demonstrate that the introduction of plantation labour during colonial rule in Africa has had significant consequences for gender roles and relations within and beyond the capitalist labour process. The book focuses on two tea estates in Anglophone Cameroon 606 $aAgricultural laborers$zAfrica 606 $aWomen in agriculture 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aAgricultural laborers 615 0$aWomen in agriculture. 676 $a331.763 700 $aKonings$b Piet$0301034 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910462357303321 996 $aGender and plantation labour in Africa$92231745 997 $aUNINA