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Working with Gender Wage Labor and Social Change in Southwestern Nigeria
Lisa Lindsay
Book Code: E00188
ISBN: 0-325-00188-X
ISBN-13: 978-0-325-00188-3
264 pages, map, photos, tables
Heinemann
Publication: 9/2/2003
List Price: $63.95 (UK Sterling Price: £37.95)
Availability: In Stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Also Available: Paperback
Trim Size: 6 1/8 X 9 1/4
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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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