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We Are All Slaves: African Miners, Culture, and Resistance at the Enugu Government Colliery, Nigeria (Social History of...
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by Carolyn A. Brown
Sales Rank: 998890
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Features
Cover Type: Hard Cover with 288 pages
Published by: Heinemann May 30, 2002
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0325070075
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0325070070
Book Dimensions:
9.3 x 6.1 x 1.3 inches
Weighs: 1.5 pounds
Product Description
This book documents an important, but understudied, sector of a West African working class. The coal miners of the Enugu Government colliery became nationalist icons for many Nigerians following a colonial government massacre of striking miners in 1949. Carolyn Brown argues that the experiences of these miners deserve to be studied as something more than appendages to the political history of the birth of the Nigerian nation. Through the lens of gender, race, and class, she documents the tumultuous history of the Enugu miners and reveals how they developed characteristics of self-awareness and class-consciousness similar to those of their Western counterparts in British or North American mines. Students and scholars of African labor and social history will find immense rewards in this book, not only because of Brown's insightful analytical themes, but also for her meticulous miner's-eye descriptions of the labor process in the Enugu mines. Those scholars more familiar with the labor history of Western coal miners will appreciate the similarities between the militant histories of the Nigerian miners and their Euro/American counterparts.
About The Author
CAROLYN A. BROWN is an Associate Professor of History at Rutgers University where she is also the Director of the Center for African Studies. In addition to her work on Nigerian coal miners, she has published articles on African labor processes in the colonial workplace and African working class masculinity.
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