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The Internationalisation of the 'Native Labour' Question in Portuguese Late Colonialism, 1945-1962

The Internationalisation of the 'Native Labour' Question in Portuguese Late Colonialism, 1945-1962

Monteiro, José Pedro

Hardcover

Series: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies

African HistoryGeneral European HistorySocial Movements

ISBN10: 3031051394
ISBN13: 9783031051395
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: Nov 23 2022
Pages: 230
Weight: 0.97
Height: 0.56 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English

This volume addresses the ways the 'native labour' question in the Portuguese late colonial empire in Africa became a recurrent topic of international and transnational debate and regulation after the Second World War. As other European colonial empires were tentatively transforming their labour and social policies in the aftermath of the war, the Portuguese Empire in Africa resisted significant changes in this domain, preserving a strict dual labour regime. As a result, a growing number of individuals, networks and institutions abroad engaged with labour and social realities in Portuguese African colonies, giving origin to a series of instances of denunciation of labour-related abuses. Portuguese authorities responded to these initiatives by selectively engaging with international norms, languages and mechanisms. However, as global decolonisation gained momentum, international and transnational events and processes would significantly constrain Portuguese imperial and colonial decision-making procedures, with the aim of retaining the empire. Therefore, the 'native labour' question became in its own right a crucial political and diplomatic element of the broader struggles over the meaning of Portuguese imperial legitimacy. As this volume argues, these historical processes are critical to properly understanding the history of Portuguese late colonialism and its protracted trajectory of decolonisation.

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