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Title:Approaches to the Economy of Colonial Annaba, 1870-1920
Author:Prochaska, DavidISNI
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.
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