Kagan Guthrie’s holistic approach to migrant labor yields several important conclusions. First, he highlights the importance of workers’ choices, explaining not just why people moved but why they moved in the ways they did: how they calculated the benefits of one destination over another, and how they decided when circumstances made it necessary to move again. Second, his attention to mobility gives a much clearer view of the mechanisms of power available to colonial authorities, as well as the limits to their effectiveness. Finally, Kagan Guthrie suggests a new explanation for the divergent trajectories of southern and sub-Saharan Africa in the aftermath of World War II.
Product Details
ISBN-13: 9780813941547
Media Type: Hardcover
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Publication Date: 10-10-2018
Pages: 240
Product Dimensions: 6.30(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.80(d)
Age Range: 18 Years
Series: Reconsiderations in Southern African History
About the Author
Zachary Kagan Guthrie is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Mississippi.