Gender and plantation labour in Africa : the story of tea pluckers' struggles in Cameroon

TitleGender and plantation labour in Africa : the story of tea pluckers' struggles in Cameroon
Publication TypeBook
Year of Publication2012
AuthorsP.J.J. Konings
Date Published2012///
PublisherAfrican Studies Centre & Langaa Publishers
Place PublishedLeiden [etc.]
Publication Languageeng
KeywordsCameroon, gender, labour relations, plantations, resistance, tea, workers
Abstract

This book explores the relationship between plantation labour and gender in Africa, particularly Cameroon. It demonstrates that the introduction of plantation labour during colonial rule has had significant consequences for gender roles and relations within and beyond the capitalist labour process. These effects have been quite ambivalent, being marked by both profound changes and remarkable continuities. The book focuses on two tea estates established in anglophone Cameroon in the 1950s, the Tole Estate and the Ndu Estate, the first employing mainly female pluckers, the second mainly male pluckers. This allows for an examination of the variations in male and female workers' modes of resistance to the control and exploitation they meet in the labour process. [ASC Leiden abstract]

IR handle/ Full text URLhttp://hdl.handle.net/1887/22178
Citation Key5415