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Title:Labour in Commercial Agriculture in Ghana in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
Author:Sutton, Inez
Year:1983
Periodical:The Journal of African History
Volume:24
Issue:4
Pages:461-483
Language:English
Geographic term:Ghana
Subjects:agricultural workers
economic history
cash crops
Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment
Labor and Employment
History and Exploration
Economics and Trade
External link:https://www.jstor.org/stable/181254
Abstract:This paper attempts to gather together information on agricultural labour in the production of cash crops in Ghana. The transition from slave and other bonded labour in the nineteenth century to wage labour in the twentieth is explored. The nature of agricultural labour in palm oil is compared to that in the production of subsequent exports, such as rubber (produced primarily on plantations) and cocoa (produced on Ghanaian-owned smallholdings). The questions of conditions of service, recruitment and sources of labour are considered historically. The preference of workers for agricultural labour is discussed, and compared to recruitment for mining and other industry. Fig., notes.
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