UID:
almafu_9960117245102883
Format:
1 online resource (xix, 281 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
1-78204-564-3
Content:
Between the late 1940s and independence in 1975, rural Mozambican women migrated to the capital, Lourenço Marques, to find employment in the cashew shelling industry. This book tells of the labour and social history of what became of 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 one hundred 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 of History and International Relations Core Faculty at Tufts University. She is the author of the Herskovits shortlisted 'African Workers and Colonial Racism' (James Currey/Heinemann, 1995)
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 11 Jun 2021).
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Frontcover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Glossary; Introduction; Mozambican women and the cashew economy; Historical context; The Cashew economy and the cashew shellers; The people & the place; The process; The challenges of women's history and oralcy; History, memory and statist narratives; Structure and arguments; 1 A Century of Contestation around Cashews; From first fruits to Tarana; Cashew anatomy: Apples, nuts, kernels and liquid toxins; Southern Mozambique's cashew orchard; Cashews in the context of family agriculture
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Sul do Save women and cashew treesThe rituals and business of summertime drinking; Brewing and social capital: Household, gift and informal economies; Cashews in the formal economy: Export and industrial processing; The industrialization of cashew shelling; African farmers and cashew sales; The Cashew economy: Expertise, policy and practice; 2 Tarana: History from the Factory Floor; Layered stories; Tarana: The hoe of the city; Industrial woman comes to town; Mapping Tarana: From djamangwana to tinumerini; Relations of production: Names and address on the factory floor
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Tharaní's era: From satellites to Chamanculo'We counted for something': Papa Tarana remembered; The BNU Era: Roquette and Malalanyana; The bonus / quota system: 'Nothing but trouble'; Contrasting perspectives on price, pay, policy and production; 3 Migration: Pathways from Poverty to Tarana; Gendered rural migration: Natives and agency in late colonial Mozambique; Raced and gendered labour control concepts; The women in men's migration: Magaiça, n'wamacholo and n'wasalela; Rural women without men: Layered ironies of the Limpopo scheme
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Seeking gendered perspectives through song'Agostinho, My Husband - Oh Mother!'; 5 African Urban Families in the Late Colonial Era: Agency; Drawing out the black city from projections of the white city; Interface of cement and caniço; Changing employment profiles: Housework and domestic service; Cashew shellers in context; Families, fertility and poverty; Urban family forms; Conclusions: Gendered Perspectives on Work, Households and Authority; The value and visibility of women's work; History and memory: Narrating a new respectability; Epilogue: Mozambique's Cashew Economy, 1975 to 2014
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The decline of Mozambique's cashew economy: Weather and war
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-84701-128-4
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9781782045649
URL:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/9781782045649/type/BOOK
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