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Invisible Hands - Child Labor and the State in Colonial Zimbabwe (Hardcover)
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Invisible Hands - Child Labor and the State in Colonial Zimbabwe (Hardcover)
Series: Social History of Africa
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Using a wealth of previously misread or neglected documentation,
Grier demonstrates that children and adolescents were a major
preoccupation of settlers in the mining and agricultural sectors,
of domestic service, and of officials whose task it was to provide
conditions favorable to the accumulation of capital. By doing so,
she uncovers how the youngest workers resisted attempts to control
their mobility and labor. Young workers and migrants employed
passive and active forms of resistance to assert or maintain their
autonomy from patriarchy, capital, and the state. In addition to
being the first historical treatment of child labor and the
construction of childhood in African studies, this book is one of
the few studies of child labor that represents children as active
agents in the construction of their own childhood. Grier begins
with children and work in the precolonial economy and with
preexisting tensions between generations and genders as the basis
for understanding why the young of Zimbabwe fled to urban areas
during the early colonial period. The theme of resistance or agency
continues as child migrants confronted the financial resources of
settlers in mining and agriculture, and in the state whose task it
was to establish and maintain the conditions for capital
accumulation. Whether they were employed in the wage labor force or
lived by their wits in town, boys and, as the colonial period
unfolded, an increasing number of girls, presented a threat to the
reproduction of the settler economic, social, and political order.
Grier prepares the reader for the subsequent salience of African
children as anti-apartheid activists, guerrillas, child soldiers,
bandits, and street children.
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