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Title:'Doorway to success?': reconstructing African careers in European business from company house magazines and oral history interviews
Author:Bersselaar, Dmitri van denISNI
Year:2011
Periodical:History in Africa (ISSN 1558-2744)
Volume:38
Pages:257-294
Language:English
Geographic term:Ghana
Subjects:trading companies
black workers
foreign enterprises
mercantile history
historical sources
External link:http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/history_in_africa/v038/38.1.van-den-bersselaar.pdf
Abstract:The analysis of company house magazines and other company records, alongside detailed interviews with former employees, allows historians to develop new insights into a broad range of topics, including business, consumption, skills and knowledge development, capitalism, and changing views on kinship, career and life cycle in African societies during the decolonization and independence eras, from the perspective of an important group of cultural and economic intermediaries - the African workers in European business. The present paper uses one case study as an example, viz. the United Africa Company (UAC, a large trading company with its head office in London) and its employees in Ghana. Bibliogr., ref. [ASC Leiden abstract]
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