Labor in Colonial Kenya after the Forced Labor Convention, 1930-1963

• Main Author: Okia, Opolot (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Africa, Sub-Saharan-History.; Imperialism.; Labor-History.; History, Modern.; History of Sub-Saharan Africa.; Imperialism and Colonialism.; Labor History.; Modern History.

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. While the 1930 Convention intended to mark the suppression of forced labor practices, various exempt...

Table of Contents:

• 1 Introduction: Communal Forced Labor as a Mask of Tradition
• 2 ''Skinny Scarecrows'': Forced Labor in Kenya before the Forced Labor Convention
• 3 The Tactical Compromise: The 1930 Forced Labor Convention and Kenya Colony
• 4 Interlude: Forced Labor during WWII
• 5 Protecting the Soil (1): Communal Labor and Land Degradation in Central Province
• 6 Protecting the Soil (2): Communal Labor and Land Degredation in Nyanza Province
• 7 Controlling ''Spivs'': The ILO and Emergency Communal Labor, 1952-1960
• 8 Conclusion: The Phoenix of Abolition
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