11:30 - 13:00
Rural Labour Systems: Workers, Markets and Mobilization from Colonial to Contemporary Times
Oral session
Room: Arts – Lecture Room 2
Stream: Concepts, Classes and Workers. Revisiting the Making of a Working Class, African Case Studies
Chair/s:
Stefano Bellucci
11:30 - 11:45
Tu-A11 Concepts, Classes and Workers 2-P-001
Rehashing the Specter of Rhodes: The Political Economy of Cheap Labour Supply in Neo-Liberalising Southern Africa
Zvenyika Eckson Mugari
Midlands State University, Gweru, Zimbabwe
11:45 - 12:00
Tu-A11 Concepts, Classes and Workers 2-P-002
Free and coerced labour in the Angolan coffee economy, c. 1930-1960
Jelmer Vos
University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom
12:00 - 12:15
Tu-A11 Concepts, Classes and Workers 2-P-003
Paternalism and the Making of Class in Central Africa: Unilever in the Belgian Congo, 1911-1960
Reuben Alexander Loffman
School of History, Queen Mary, University of London, London, United Kingdom
12:15 - 12:30
Tu-A11 Concepts, Classes and Workers 2-P-004
Rural Labour Markets: Uncovering its Neglect and Implications for the Socio-Economic and Productive Structure in Mozambique
Rosimina Samusser Ali
IESE, Institute for Social and Economic Studies, Maputo, Mozambique