Labour export policy in the development of Southern Africa / Bill Paton.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Harare: University of Zimbabwe Publications, 1995Description: xii, 397 pages ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9780908307418 (hbk.)
  • 0908307411 (hbk,)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • HD5707 PAT 1995
Contents:
Abbreviations, Acronyms and Glossary -- Introduction: Labour Export in Theory and in Southern Africa -- Malawi: The Power to Control Recruiting -- Zambia: Labour Export and the Creation of a State -- Zimbabwe: The Maintenance of a 'Labour Account Surplus' -- Mozambique: Labour Export Policy and International Conflict -- Tanzania: A Successful Labour Retention Policy -- Lesotho: Labour Export, Domestic Politics and Foreign Relations -- Swaziland: Managing a 'Labour Account Deficit' -- Botswana: From 'Goromente' to the Government of Labour Export -- Conclusion: The Struggle to Control Labour Export in Southern Africa -- Appendix 1: The Southern African Labour Supply Commission -- Appendix 2: Statistics on Migrant Labourers Working Abroad in Southern Africa -- Bibliography -- Index. --(source: Nielsen Book Data)
Summary: Exploring the role of eight labour-exporting administrations in southern Africa in controlling international labour migration, this book traces their growing influence over international labour supply and the importance of this labour-export policy in their emergence as separate states. Labour-export policy in Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe over the past century is examined. A statistical overview and graphs of the flow of labour are included. (source: Nielsen Book Data)
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Bibliography: p. 351-387.

Abbreviations, Acronyms and Glossary -- Introduction: Labour Export in Theory and in Southern Africa -- Malawi: The Power to Control Recruiting -- Zambia: Labour Export and the Creation of a State -- Zimbabwe: The Maintenance of a 'Labour Account Surplus' -- Mozambique: Labour Export Policy and International Conflict -- Tanzania: A Successful Labour Retention Policy -- Lesotho: Labour Export, Domestic Politics and Foreign Relations -- Swaziland: Managing a 'Labour Account Deficit' -- Botswana: From 'Goromente' to the Government of Labour Export -- Conclusion: The Struggle to Control Labour Export in Southern Africa -- Appendix 1: The Southern African Labour Supply Commission -- Appendix 2: Statistics on Migrant Labourers Working Abroad in Southern Africa -- Bibliography -- Index. --(source: Nielsen Book Data)

Exploring the role of eight labour-exporting administrations in southern Africa in controlling international labour migration, this book traces their growing influence over international labour supply and the importance of this labour-export policy in their emergence as separate states. Labour-export policy in Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe over the past century is examined. A statistical overview and graphs of the flow of labour are included.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)

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