Industrial Labor in the Colonial World

by James A. Jones

This is the first major study of a pivotal episode in West African history, the great railroad strike of 1947-48, examined from the perspective of Africans who worked and lived along the Dakar-Niger railroad. As the first inter-territorial movement to oppose colonial rule, the railroad workers inspired pan-Africanists everywhere and prepared the way for the decolonization of French West Africa. African railroad workers operated the railroad - the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 032507089X
• ISBN13: 9780325070896
• Release Date: November 2002
• Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 1.03 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.5"