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Working with Gender Wage Labor and Social Change in Southwestern Nigeria

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By Lisa Lindsay

ISBN: 0-325-00187-1

ISBN-13: 978-0-325-00187-6

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264 pages, map, photos, tables

Heinemann

Publication: 9/2/2003

List Price: $38.75 (UK Sterling Price: £16.95)

Availability: In Stock

Media Type: Paperback

Also Available: Hardcover

Trim Size: 6 1/8 X 9 1/4

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Series Title: Social History of Africa Series

Description: Lindsay argues that wage labor became gendered as male because of transformations in the labor process, along with the concrete goals and values of individual Nigerian men and women, which were often influenced by indigenous and imported ideas about modernization. This book provides a view of modernization from a Nigerian, working-class perspective. It points to the tensions and engagement between the practical strategies and ideological assumptions of various colonial administrators and African workers. Lindsay argues that wage labor became gendered as male because of transformations in the labor process, along with the concrete goals and values of individual Nigerian men and women, which were often influenced by indigenous and imported ideas about modernization. This book provides a view of modernization from a Nigerian, working-class perspective. It points to the tensions and engagement between the practical strategies and ideological assumptions of various colonial administrators and African workers. Part labor history, part social history, part history of ideology, and part demographic history, Working with Gender is one of those rare books that transcend traditional academic categorization by discipline.

Table of Contents:

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: Gender and Wage Labor in Colonial Africa
Wage Labor, Money, and Masculinity in Early 20th Century Yorubaland Families, Jobs, and the State Before 1945
Domesticity and Difference: The 1945 General Strike
The Rise of the "Male Breadwinner" in Postwar Southwestern Nigeria Urban Labor, Extended Families, and the Differentiation of Domesticity
Domesticity and Difference Reconfigured: The 1964 General Strike
The Fall of the "Modern" Breadwinner?
Bibliography

LC Card Number: 2003040682

LCC Class: HD5098

Dewey Class: 306


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