Gender and plantation labour in Africa : the story of tea pluckers' struggles in Cameroon / Piet Konings.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Tables; Abbreviations; Map of the Republic of Cameroon; 1. Gender and labour on Cameroon's tea estates; Introduction; Gender in Africa; Gender and tea plucking in Anglophone Cameroon; Gender and labour resistance on Anglophone Cameroon's tea estates; Organisation of the book and research methodology; Notes; 2. Production and marketing policies on Cameroon's tea estates; Introduction; Tea Production in Cameroon; Tea marketing in Cameroon; Notes; Part I -- The Tole Tea Estate; 3. Female workers; Introduction.

Managerial option for female pluckersEthnic/regional origin of female workers; Demographic characteristics of female workers; Remuneration of female workers; Tole Tea women: Wage workers and mothers; Conclusion; Notes; 4. Management of female workers; Introduction; The physical organisation of production; Managerial strategies of labour control; State and labour control; Conclusion; Notes; 5. Female workers and trade unionism; Introduction; Trade unionism on the CDC estates; Shop stewards on the Tole Tea Estate; Participation of female workers in trade unionism; Conclusion; Notes.

6. Informal and collective actions of femaleworkersIntroduction; Actions of female pluckers against managerial efforts toincrease labour productivity; Actions of female workers against managerial effortsto establish control over the labour process; Actions of female workers against managerial effortsto minimise wages and other conditions of service; Conclusion; Notes; Part II -The Ndu Tea Estate; 7. Male orkers; Introduction; Ndu society; Agreement between EAC and the chief of Ndu; The male labour force on the Ndu Tea Estate; Remuneration of male pluckers on the Ndu Tea Estate; Conclusion.

Notes8. Management of male workers and theirinformal modes of resistance; Introduction; Labour control regime on the Ndu Tea Estate; Informal actions of male pluckers; Conclusion; Notes; 9. Male workers and trade unionism; Introduction; The emergence and development of trade unionism onthe Ndu Tea Estate; Trade union and collective action of male pluckers, 1958-1991; Conclusion; Notes; Part III -- The Cameroon tea estates; 10. Privatisation and labour militancy: The of Cameroon's tea estates; Introduction; The privatisation of the CDC tea estates; Growing labour militancy on the Tole Tea Estate.

Growing labour militancy on the Ndu Tea EstateConclusion; Notes; References; Index; Back Cover.

This book explores the relationship between plantation labour and gender in Africa. Such a study is the more opportune because most of the existing works on plantation labour in Africa seem to have either under-studied or even ignored the changing conceptions of gender on the continent in recent times. One of the book's major concerns is to demonstrate that the introduction of plantation labour during colonial rule in Africa has had significant consequences for gender roles and relations within and beyond the capitalist labour process. The book focuses on two tea estates in Anglophone Cameroon.

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