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Working with gender : wage labor and social change in southwestern Nigeria / Lisa A. Lindsay.
Lippincott Library HD5098 .L56 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lindsay, Lisa A.
- Series:
- Social history of Africa 1099-8098
- Social history of Africa, 1099-8098
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Wages--Nigeria.
- Wages.
- Sexual division of labor--Nigeria.
- Sexual division of labor.
- Nigeria--Social conditions.
- Nigeria.
- Social conditions.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 241 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Portsmouth, NH : Heinemann, 2003.
- Summary:
- This book provides a view of modernization from a Nigerian, working-class perspective.
- Contents:
- 1. Introduction: Gender and Wage Labor in Colonial Africa 1
- 2. Wage Labor, Money, and Masculinity in Early Twentieth-Century Yorubaland 31
- 3. Families, Jobs, and the State before 1945 53
- 4. Domesticity and Difference: The 1945 General Strike 77
- 5. The Rise of the "Male Breadwinner" in Postwar Southwestern Nigeria 105
- 6. Urban Labor, Extended Families, and the Differentiation of Domesticity 133
- 7. Domesticity and Difference Reconfigured: The 1964 General Strike 173
- 8. Conclusion: The Fall of the "Modern" Breadwinner? 203.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [215]-231) and index.
- ISBN:
- 032500188X
- 0325001871
- OCLC:
- 51631379
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