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Title: | Approaches to the Economy of Colonial Annaba, 1870-1920 |
Author: | Prochaska, David |
Year: | 1990 |
Periodical: | Africa: Journal of the International African Institute |
Volume: | 60 |
Issue: | 4 |
Pages: | 497-523 |
Language: | English |
Geographic terms: | Algeria France |
Subjects: | colonialism urban economy History and Exploration Development and Technology Economics and Trade |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/1160205 |
Abstract: | On the basis of an investigation of the former French municipal archives of colonial Annaba (Bône, Algeria) the author describes the colonial economy of Annaba. The evidence shows that the chief distinguishing characteristic of the colonial Annaba economy was economic dualism. Commerce predominated over industry, the services sector overshadowed manufacturing. The main economic distinction was that between the European, capitalist sector, and the Algerian, precapitalist, bazaar-oriented sector of the economy. Every large company, from the gasworks to the superphosphates factory and from Alban's cigar and cigarette factory to the Bône-Guelma workyards, was dominated by Europeans, notably the French. Economic dualism existed in space as well as over time. Algerians tended to be overshadowed in this French city, even to become 'invisible'. This is shown by the lack of statistical information on the informal sector and by the images of work in colonial Annaba on European postcards. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. in French. |