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| Title: | Colonial Forced Labor Policies for Road-Building in Southern Ghana and International Anti-Forced Labor Pressures, 1900-1940 |
| Author: | Akurang-Parry, Kwabena O. |
| Year: | 2000 |
| Periodical: | African Economic History |
| Volume: | 28 |
| Pages: | 1-25 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic terms: | Ghana Great Britain |
| Subjects: | colonialism abolition of slavery forced labour road construction History and Exploration Labor and Employment Development and Technology Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) Economics and Trade |
| External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/3601647 |
| Abstract: | This study deals with the dialectics of forced labour and roadbuilding in colonial southern Ghana between 1900 and 1940. Specifically, it examines how the colonial State responded to the crusading pressures of the Anti-Slavery Society, the Aborigines Protection Society (APS), the League of Nations, and the ILO to abolish unfree labour forms. The author argues that the colonial State employed different labour ordinances and labour recruiting strategies between 1900 and 1940 to rationalize the use of forced labour, and that such intermittent labour policies were used to assuage the recurring international antislavery and anti-forced labour pressures and concerns. The first part of the study probes missing links and nuances in the colonial reports on forced labour, the primary sources for the study. The second part examines the efforts of the colonial State to implement forced labour policies to satisfy the increasing international anti-forced labour pressures. Overall, the paradox of the colonial situation enabled the colonial State to exploit forced labour while apparently championing free labour. Notes, ref. |
