- Title
- Migrant labour and colonial rule in Basutoland, 1890-1930
- Title
- ISER monograph, no. 1
- Creator
- Kimble, Judith M
- Subject
- Migrant labor -- Lesotho Markets -- Lesotho Produce trade -- Lesotho Lesotho -- Economic conditions Lesotho -- History -- To 1966 Lesotho -- Politics and government -- To 1966
- Date
- 1999
- Type
- Book
- Type
- Text
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/2542
- Identifier
- vital:20302
- Identifier
- ISBN 0868103594
- Description
- The original Introduction to the thesis, in summary, developed three main themes (a) a close analysis of the institutional arrangements of the pre-capitalist mode of production, demonstrating its complexity; (b) a broader perspective on the legal, political, social and economic aspects of colonialism; and (c) an account of the distinctive patterns of migrant labour which resulted. First. Judy examined the cheap labour hypothesis of Wolpe (1972), which identified the policy of Segregation as ‘the key mechanism in the subcontinent for the forcible generation and reproduction of labour power on a scale and at a price required by foreign mining capital'. Although she found this a major advance from earlier views of migrant labour as simply a system whereby "men oscillate between their home in some rural area and their place of work’ (Francis Wilson, 1972b), she criticised Wolpe’s hypothesis for failing to incorporate an adequate analysis of ‘the internal forces promoting labour migrancy in Basutoland under colonial rule’, to which she paid particular attention. She did not regard migrant labour solely as ‘The outcome of ruling class policy or ruling class intention’ (Brenner, 1977:78). Nor does she accept Wolpe’s assumption that the migrant labour system was an intended effect of the strategy of mining capital; this reduced "the variety of complex historical factors’ to "the driving force of “the needs of capital”. She therefore offered ‘a more extended exploration of the political dimension of colonial rule’ and a more complex analysis of mining capital and its relationship with pre-capitalist social formations.
- Description
- Digitised by Rhodes University Library on behalf of the Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER)
- Format
- xvi, 320 pages, pdf
- Publisher
- Rhodes University, Institute of Social and Economic Research
- Language
- English
- Relation
- ISER monograph, no. 1
- Rights
- Kimble, Helen
- Rights
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
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