Despite its crucial role in the Ugandan economy, labour power has
rarely been studied by social scientists. In particular, the real
life experience of workers as they interact with both capital and
the state has been ignored. This huge gap is redressed in this
study by Ugandan authors at the Centre for Basic Research in
Kampala. It provides a detailed analysis of rural Ugandan labour
today. The violent imposition of colonial taxes in Uganda at the
turn of the nineteenth century changed village life irrevocably by
introducing a cash-based economy. Subsistence farming was
superseded by the need to generate income. At the same time, the
arrival of technology separated villagers into classes and
redefined gender roles. Studies range from salt winners inside
Katwe National Park, to the degradation and explicit oppression of
dairy farmers in Kigezi and the life of fisherpeople near Lake
Victoria, giving an in-depth description of the human experience of
wage labour. Three village case studies complete the analysis.
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