Women, Migration & the Cashew Economy in Southern Mozambique

Name: Women, Migration & the Cashew Economy in Southern Mozambique
Brand: James Currey
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By Penvenne, Jeanne Marie

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Between the late 1940s and independence in 1975, rural Mozambican women migrated to the capital, Lourenco Marques, to find employment in the cashew shelling industry. This book tells the labour and social history of what became Mozambique's most important late colonial era industry through the oral history and songs of three generations of the workforce. In the 1950s Jiva Jamal Tharani recruited a largely female labour force and inaugurated industrial cashew shelling in the Chamanculo neighbourhood. Seasonal cashew brews had long been an essential component of the region's household, gift and informal economies, but by the 1970s cashew exports comprised the largest share of the colony's foreign exchange earnings. This book demonstrates that Mozambique's cashew economy depended fundamentally on women's work and should be understood as "whole cloth." Drawing on over 100 interviews, the rich narratives convey layered histories: the rural crises that triggered the flight of women, their lives as factory workers, widespread payment and wage fraud, the formation of innovative urban families, and the health costs that all African families paid for municipal neglect of their neighbourhoods. Jeanne Marie Penvenne is Associate Professor in History, Core faculty in International Relations and Africana Studies at Tufts University. She is the author of the Herskovits shortlisted African Workers and Colonial Racism (James Currey/Heinemann, 1995)

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Edition:: illustrated
Languages:: Original: English
Number of Pages:: 304
Publisher:: James Currey
Publication Date:: 2015-08-20
ISBN / EAN:: 9781847011282
Weight:: 622 g
Dimensions:: 16/24/2 cm
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:: [email protected]

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