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This book advances research into the government-forced labor used widely in colonial Kenya from 1930 to 1963 after the passage of the International Labor Organization’s Forced Labour Convention.

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Werengeka's Anxiety Forced Labor and Colonial Development in Africa The Juridical Foundation of Government Forced Labor 'Making the Lazy Nigger Work:' European Settlers, the State and Forced Labor, 1895-1919 The Northey Forced Labor Crisis, 1919-1921 Interlude: Forced Labor Bounded, 1921-1925 Normalizing Force: Archdeacon Walter Owen and the Issue of Communal Labor, 1920-1930

Communal Labor in Colonial Kenya The Legitimization of Coercion 19121930

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      Publisher Palgrave MacMillan Us
      Published 7/25/2012 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN-13 9780230392953
      978-0230392953
      ISBN-10 0230392954
      Also in:
      African history Colonialism and imperialism Politics and government

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This book advances research into the government-forced labor used widely in colonial Kenya from 1930 to 1963 after the passage of the International Labor Organization’s Forced Labour Convention.

      Table of Contents
      Werengeka's Anxiety Forced Labor and Colonial Development in Africa The Juridical Foundation of Government Forced Labor 'Making the Lazy Nigger Work:' European Settlers, the State and Forced Labor, 1895-1919 The Northey Forced Labor Crisis, 1919-1921 Interlude: Forced Labor Bounded, 1921-1925 Normalizing Force: Archdeacon Walter Owen and the Issue of Communal Labor, 1920-1930

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