Women, Migration & the Cashew Economy in Southern Mozambique / Jeanne Penvenne.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Penvenne, Jeanne, author.

Language:

English

Multiple languages

Subjects (All):

Cashew nut industry.

Women.

Economic history.

Social history.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xix, 281 pages) : illustrations some color

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Women, Migration & the Cashew Economy in Southern Mozambique

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : Boydell & Brewer, 2015.

Language Note:

In Multiple languages.

Summary:

Analyses the lives and livelihoods of the female cashew shellers in Mozambique's capital in the colonial era, during which the industry grew to be a major export, and relates how the women played a fundamental, but previously underappreciated, role in the colony's economy.

Contents:

A century of contestation around cashews

Tarana: History from the factory floor

Migration : pathways from poverty to Tarana

Lives around livelihoods: 'Children are not like chickens'

African urban families in the late Colonial Era: agency

Conclusions

Epilogue: Mozambique's cashew economy, 1975-2014.

Notes:

This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-78744-724-3

OCLC:

1149214446