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Title:Contradictions in 'Modelling' Consciousness: Zimbabwean Proletarians in the Making
Author:Cheater, Angela P.ISNI
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.
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