Vient de paraître Diamonds in the Rough. Corporate Paternalism and African Professionalism on the Mines of Colonial Angola, 1917–1975 de Todd Cleveland aux Ohio UP

Vient de paraître Diamonds in the Rough. Corporate Paternalism and African Professionalism on the Mines of Colonial Angola, 1917–1975 de Todd Cleveland aux Ohio University Press, "New African Histories", 2015, 280 p. ISBN : 978-0-8214-2134-5 Prix : 26,36 $ (existe aussi en version électronique).

Sommaire de l’ouvrage (et introduction)

"Todd Cleveland explains that this unparalleled level of quietude was a product of three factors : African workers’ high levels of social and occupational commitment, or “professionalism” ; the extreme isolation of the mining installations ; and efforts by Diamang to attract and retain scarce laborers through a calculated paternalism. The company’s offer of decent accommodations and recreational activities, as well as the presence of women and children, induced reciprocal behavior on the part of the miners, a professionalism that pervaded both the social and the workplace environments. This disparity between the harshness of the colonial labor regime elsewhere and the relatively agreeable conditions and attendant professionalism of employees at Diamang opens up new ways of thinking about how Africans in colonial contexts engaged with forced labor, mining capital, and ultimately, each other."

Todd Cleveland is an assistant professor of history at Augustana College (Illinois). He has been a Fulbright scholar in both Angola and Ghana. He is the author of numerous book chapters and articles on the history of diamond mining and on soccer within the former Portuguese empire in Africa.