Crisis and neoliberal reforms in Africa : civil society and agro-industry in anglophone Cameroon's plantation economy / Piet Konings.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Konings, Piet.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Agriculture--Economic aspects--Cameroon.

Agriculture.

Cameroon--Politics and government.

Cameroon.

Cameroon--Economic conditions--21st century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (280 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bamenda : Langaa RPCIG ; Leiden, The Netherlands : African Studies Centre, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book discusses the social and political consequences of the economic and financial crisis that befell African economies since the 1980's, using as case study the plantation economy of the Anglophone region of Cameroon. The focus is thus on recent efforts to liberalize and privatize an agro-industrial enterprise where overseas capital and its domestic partners have converged, the consequent modes of production and labour, and the alternatives proposed and resistance generated. The study details how the unprecedented crisis caused great commotion in the region, and presented a serious challenge

Contents:

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Tables; Abbreviations; Map of the Republic of Cameroon; 1. Civil society and Anglophone Cameroon's agro-industrial crisis and reforms; Introduction; Major theories on plantation production; Civil society, the agro-industrial crisis and reforms; Organisation of the book and research methodology; Notes; 2. Ethno-regional groups and associations in the South West Province and the agro-industrial crisis; Introduction; The liquidation and sale of Pamol; State withdrawal and privatisation of the CDC; Conclusion; Notes

3. CDC workers and the agro-industrial crisis Introduction; Trade unionism in the CDC and the agro-industrial crisis; Tea pluckers and the agro-industrial crisis; Tea pluckers and managerial efforts to maximise labour productivity; Tea pluckers and managerial efforts to strengthen control over the labour process; Tea pluckers and managerial efforts to minimise wages and conditions of service; Conclusion; Notes; 4. Trade unions and Pamol's crisis and liquidation; Introduction; The birth and development of trade unionism on the Pamol estates

The role of trade unionism during Pamol's crisis and liquidation Conclusion; Notes; 5. Chieftaincy and the privatisation of the CDC; Introduction; Bakweri chiefs and the retrieval of CDC lands; Bakweri chiefs and the privatisation of the CDC; Conclusion; Notes; 6. Privatisation and labour militancy:The case of Cameroon's tea estates; Introduction; The privatisation of the CDC tea estates; Growing labour militancy on the Tole Tea Estate; Growing labour militancy on the Ndu Tea Estate; Conclusion; Notes; 7. CDC smallholder development and the agro-industrial crisis; Introduction

Smallholder development at the CDC, 1946/47-1977/78 Smallholder development at the CDC, 1977/78-1994/95; Conclusion; Notes; 8. Pamol's contract farmers and cooperatives: Their development in response to the agro-industrial crisis; Introduction; The emergence and development of Pamol's contract farming scheme; Contract farmers' cooperatives and Pamol's crisis and liquidation; Conclusion; Notes; References; Index; Back cover

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-243) and index.

ISBN:

9786613004895

9781283004893

1283004895

9789956579266

9956579262

9789956579242

9956579246

9789956578108

995657810X

OCLC:

830165845