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Title: | Contradictions in 'Modelling' Consciousness: Zimbabwean Proletarians in the Making |
Author: | Cheater, Angela P. |
Year: | 1988 |
Periodical: | Journal of Southern African Studies |
Volume: | 14 |
Issue: | 2 |
Period: | January |
Pages: | 291-303 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Zimbabwe |
Subjects: | class consciousness working class Labor and Employment Ethnic and Race Relations |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/2636633 |
Abstract: | After a discussion of the problems related to culture and consciousness, the author turns to the theme of 'worker consciousness', wishing to enter a caveat against the views particularly of some 'radical' economic historians, who assume that there is an irreconcilable antagonism between capital and labour. The author's data suggest instead that 'worker consciousness' is forged in multiple conflicts with differing antagonists, and is thus highly differentiated and situational. Distinguishing between 'home-made' and 'ideological' models of 'class consciousness' in Zimbabwe, the conclusion of the paper is that, to understand the reality of 'class' and 'class consciousness' in this country, both models are necessary. Ref. |