14:00 - 15:30
Concepts, Classes and Workers: shaping the questions
Room: Arts – Lecture Room 2
Stream: Concepts, Classes and Workers. Revisiting the Making of a Working Class, African Case Studies
Chair/s:
Alice Bellagamba
14:00 - 14:15
Tu-A11 Concepts, Classes and Workers 3-P-001
Post-slavery and the non-making of a working class in the Nigerien Sahel.
Benedetta Rossi
University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
14:15 - 14:30
Tu-A11 Concepts, Classes and Workers 3-P-002
From Slave Labour to “Free” Wage Labour in Colonial Somalia: Issues of a Capitalist Transformation?
Stefano Bellucci
Leiden University & International Institute of Social History, Leiden, Netherlands
14:30 - 14:45
Tu-A11 Concepts, Classes and Workers 3-P-003
“Class is defined by men as they live their own lives”: In search of Mauritania’s Working Class
Ann McDougall
University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada