Struggle for the city
Subtitle: migrant labor, capital, and the state in urban Africa
By: Frederick Cooper, editor.
Contributors: Cooper, Frederick, 1947-
Series: Sage series on African modernization and development ;; v. 8
Publisher: Sage Publications; SAGE Publications, Inc
Published: 1983
Place of publication: Beverly Hills
Language: eng; fre
Number of pages: 319
Subjects: Migrant labor -- Africa.; Cities and towns -- Africa.; Social classes -- Africa.; Africa -- Social conditions.
Notes: Includes bibliographies.
English and French.
Table of contents: title: Urban space, industrial time, and wage labor in Africa / Frederick Cooper; title: Workers as criminals / William Worger; title: Productivity and protest / Jeff Crisp; title: Here everyone walked with fear / Jeanne Penvenne; title: A colonial state and an African petty bourgeoisie / Luise White; title: De la calabasse à la production en série / Gerard Salem; title: Work, migration, and class in western Nigeria / Sara S. Berry; title: Struggle from the margins / Colin Murray.