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Tarana

mulheres, migração e a economia do caju no sul de Moçambique, 1945 - 1975

dc.contributor.authorPenvenne, Jeanne Marie
dc.date.accessioned2023-10-05T10:56:26Z
dc.date.available2023-10-05T10:56:26Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.identifierONIX_20231005_9781787447240_1849
dc.identifier.urihttps://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/116111
dc.languagePortuguese
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHH African historyen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics::KCM Development economics and emerging economiesen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTQ Colonialism and imperialismen_US
dc.subject.otherHistory
dc.subject.otherAfrican Studies
dc.subject.otherDevelopment Studies
dc.subject.otherPolitical Science
dc.titleTarana
dc.title.alternativemulheres, migração e a economia do caju no sul de Moçambique, 1945 - 1975
dc.typebook
oapen.abstract.otherlanguageJOINT RUNNER-UP FOR THE 2017 AIDOO-SNYDER BOOK PRIZE 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 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 Professor of History, and core faculty in International Relations, Africana and Women, and Gender and Sexuality Studies at Tufts University.. She is the author of the Herskovits shortlisted African Workers and Colonial Racism (James Currey/Heinemann, 1995)
oapen.identifier.doi10.2307/j.ctvt6rjn7
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy7b5beb75-2e34-4246-8da6-875fc8894f70
oapen.relation.isFundedBybea8fb7b-ec31-4756-aa10-9091d131b6ac
oapen.relation.isbn9781787447240
oapen.imprintJames Currey an imprint of Boydell & Brewer
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