num_pages: 290
description: A study of work in the European-African colonial relationship during the first half of the 20th century. Labor relations became increasingly tense during the 1940s due to a rising urban working class, and this book examines the transformation of the relations by focusing on African dockworkers.
language: English
title: On the African Waterfront: Urban Disorder and the Transformation of Work in Colonial Mombasa
publisher: Yale University Press