Law, State, and the Working Class in Tanzania, C. 1920-1964

Law, State, and the Working Class in Tanzania, C. 1920-1964

Author: Issa G. Shivji

Publisher: James Currey

Published: 1986

Total Pages: 296

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Study commenting on the evolution of labour legislation and the working class of Tanzania from 1920 to 1964 - describes the historical background; examines legal aspects of working conditions, strikes and labour disputes, trade union rights, child labour, etc., and the development of wages-work and trade unionism; includes case studies, judicial decisions and a glossary. Diagram, map, references, statistical tables.


Africa

Africa

Author: Foreign Affairs Research Documentation Center

Publisher:

Published: 1969

Total Pages: 70

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The 1964 Army Mutinies and the Making of Modern East Africa

The 1964 Army Mutinies and the Making of Modern East Africa

Author: Timothy Parsons

Publisher: Praeger

Published: 2003-03-30

Total Pages: 270

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This book provides a new concept framework for understanding the factors that lead soldiers to challenge civil authority in developing nations. By exploring the causes and effects of the 1964 East African army mutinies, it provides novel insights into the nature of institutional violence, aggression, and military unrest in former colonial societies. The study integrates history and the social sciences by using detailed empirical data on the soldiers' protests in Tanganyika, Uganda, and Kenya. The roots of the 1964 army mutinies in Tanganyika, Uganda, and Kenya were firmly rooted in the colonial past when economic and strategic necessity forced the former British territorial governments to rely on Africans for defense and internal security. As the only group in colonial society with access to weapons and military training, the African soldiery was a potential threat to the security of British rule. Colonial authorities maintained control over African soldiers by balancing the significant rewards of military service with social isolation, harsh discipline, and close political surveillance. After independence, civilian pay levels out-paced army wages, thereby tarnishing the prestige of military service. As compensation, veteran African soldiers expected commissions and improved terms of service when the new governments Africanized the civil service. They grew increasingly upset when African politicians proved unwilling and unable to meet their demands. Yet the creation of new democratic societies removed most of the restrictive regulations that had disciplined colonial African soldiers. Lacking the financial resources and military expertise to create new armies, the independent African governments had to retain the basic structure and character of the inherited armies. Soldiers in Tanganyika, Uganda, and Kenya mutinied in rapid succession during the last week of January 1964 because their governments could no longer maintain the delicate balance of coercion and concessions that had kept the colonial soldiery in check. The East African mutinies demonstrate that the propensity of an African army to challenge civil authority was directly tied to its degree of integration into postcolonial society.


Co-operation, Conflict and Conscription - T.a.n.u.-t.f.l. Relations, 1955-1964

Co-operation, Conflict and Conscription - T.a.n.u.-t.f.l. Relations, 1955-1964

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Published: 1967

Total Pages: 0

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Tanzania. Case study of government control during the period from 1955 to 1964 of the Tanganyika federation of labour, as an illustration of the tempestuous relations between trade unions and the nationalist political parties in a large number of African countries following the attainment of independence and of the tendency towards government policy of control - covers the origins and elaboration of conflicts, strikes, the arrest of union leadership members, etc. References.


Political Development and the New Realism in Sub-Saharan Africa

Political Development and the New Realism in Sub-Saharan Africa

Author: David Ernest Apter

Publisher: University of Virginia Press

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 9780813914794

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Since the 1950s David Apter and Carl Rosenberg have been among the leading American scholars in African Studies. In this volume they, along with other major specialists in the field, explore the new configurations of African politics. With tentative efforts at a revival of democracy now taking place, it seems appropriate to reasses the theoretical debates ad empirical themes that have characterized postwar Sub-Saharan African politics. Focusing on "new realism" that has emerged among Africanists since the dismantling of colonial rule, the essays are presented as a corrective both to the initial euphoria informing African studies and to the later tendency to place blame for all Africa's political and economic difficulties on the receding specter of colonial oppression.


A Working Class in the Making

A Working Class in the Making

Author: John Higginson

Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 334

ISBN-13: 9780299120702

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For colonial administrators and the Belgian banks, the Belgian Congo was an immensely rich source of raw materials; diamonds, gold, manganese, oils, nuts, tobacco, peanuts, etc. One of the major forms of exploitation of the Congo was the effort to set up mining companies and to force Africans to work in the mines to extract these resources. Focusing on the most powerful of these mining companies--the Union Minière du Haut-Katange, John Higginson provides a detailed history of the relationship between the company and the African workers from 1907 through 1951