LEADER 03041nam 22004815 450 001 996565562603316 005 20240209143027.0 010 $a3-11-121809-0 024 7 $a10.1515/9783111218090 035 $a(CKB)29270033500041 035 $a(DE-B1597)650273 035 $a(DE-B1597)9783111218090 035 $a(EXLCZ)9929270033500041 100 $a20231209h20232024 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aPrisms of Work $eLabour, Recruitment and Command in German East Africa /$fMichael Rösser 210 1$aBerlin :$cDe Gruyter Oldenbourg,$d[2023] 210 4$d2024 215 $a1 online resource (XV, 406 p.) 225 1 $aWork in Global and Historical Perspective ,$x2509-8861 ;$v21 311 08$a9783111204628 327 $tFrontmatter --$tPreface --$tAcknowledgements --$tContents --$tList of Figures --$t1 Towards a Global History of Labour --$t2 Global Labour History in the Indian Ocean --$t3 The Central Railway --$t4 "The Machine" Defeats an Engine: The Otto Plantation in Kilossa --$t5 Bones of Contention? The Tendaguru Expedition --$t6 Conclusion and Outlook --$tList of Works Cited --$tIndex 330 $aThe phenomenon of labour takes the character of a prism. Labour is thereby always context dependent and constituted through the actions of all protagonists involved in any labour relationship. On the basis of three case studies in colonial German East Africa - the construction of the Central Railway (1905-1916), the Otto Plantation in Kilossa (1907-1916) and the palaeontological Tendaguru Expedition (1909-1911) - labour and labour relations are analysed. The focus lies on hitherto neglected actors and groups of actors of labour in the colonial context of East Africa. These were especially German companies and their staff, white subaltern railway sub-contractors and labour recruiters, Indian skilled workers and (qualified) East African workers. Furthermore, all three sites of labour proved to have their individual logics and characteristics. But all of them were in tension between the 'global' and the 'local', coercion and voluntariness, machine and manual labour, skilled and unskilled labour, reproductive and wage labour, as well as between black and white. Michael Rösser's dissertation has been awarded with 'honorary distinction' by the European Network in Universal and Global History (ENIUGH). 410 0$aWork in global and historical perspective;$vv. 21. 606 $aHISTORY / Social History$2bisacsh 610 $aColonialism. 610 $aEast Africa. 610 $aGlobal history. 610 $aInfrastructure. 610 $alabour. 615 7$aHISTORY / Social History. 700 $aRösser$b Michael$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01453605 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 801 2$bUkOxU 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996565562603316 996 $aPrisms of Work$93656379 997 $aUNISA