One of the most hotly debated issues in African labour studies has been workers' consciousness and action. One of the shortcomings of this debate has been its failure to address the consciousness and action of woman wage workers. This book focuses on the consciousness and action of plantation labour in Cameroon. Two tea estates were selected for an in-depth research. A study of these estates was particularly interesting in that one of them employs mainly female pluckers and the other mainly male pluckers. This made it possible to examine whether there are any variations in female and male workers' consciousness and action. Such a comparative analysis is helpful in assessing the widespread managerial assumption on tea estates that female pluckers tend to be more productive and docile than male pluckers.
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Höhe: 159 mm
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978-1-85972-355-5 (9781859723555)
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The production and marketing of tea in Cameroon; the Tole tea estate: female workers on the Tole tea estate; management of female workers; female workers and trade unionism on the Tole tea estate; informal and collective actions of female workers on the Tole tea estate. The Ndu tea estate: male workers on the Ndu tea estate; labour control and informal labour resistance on the Ndu tea estate; male pluckers and trade unionism on the Ndu tea estate; class consciousness and class action of tea pluckers.
