Internationalisation of the 'Native Labour' Question in Portuguese Late Colon...

Description: Internationalisation of the 'Native Labour' Question in Portuguese Late Colonialism, 1, Hardcover by Monteiro, Jose´ Pedro, ISBN 3031051394, ISBN-13 9783031051395, Brand New, Free shipping in the US 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 increasingly responded to these initiatives by selectively engaging with international norms, languages and mechanisms. But as global decolonization 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 along the protracted trajectory of decolonization.

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