A Working Class in the Making: Belgian Colonial Labor Policy, Private Enterprise, and the African Mineworker, 1907-1951 - Softcover

Higginson, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0299120740 ISBN 13: 9780299120740

Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press, 1990

Synopsis

For colonial administrators and the Belgian banks, the Belgian Congo was an immensely rich source of raw materials; diamonds, gold, manganese, oils, nuts, tobacco, peanuts, etc.  One of the major forms of exploitation of the Congo was the effort to set up mining companies and to force Africans to work in the mines to extract these resources.  Focusing on the most powerful of these mining companies—the Union Minière du Haut-Katange, John Higginson provides a detailed history of the relationship between the company and the African workers from 1907 through 1951

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About the Author

John Higginson is Associate Professor of History at Northern Illinois University.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0299120740
• ISBN 13: 9780299120740
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 328