African workers and colonial racism Book

	Preface
	Glossary
	Currency Note
	Introduction	1
	Work: Images and Meaning	1
	Labor Policy and Practice	3
	An African Working Class	5
	Individuals, Structures and Groups	7
	Voices and Historians	9
1	Context and Chronology: The Metropole, the Hinterland and the Region	16
	Chronology - The Metropole	16
	The Hinterland Textures	20
	The Regional Textures - Wenela Without/Shibalo Within	24
	Shibalo - Implanting the System	26
2	Creating a White Man's Town: Xilunguine, Lourenco Marques, Delagoa Bay	28
	The Contenders and the Stakes	29
	Xilunguine, Lourenco Marques and Delagoa Bay	31
	Sculpting the City's Main Lines	33
	Shaping the City's Characteristic Textures	40
3	"Work for the White People, You Will be Able to Get Money" - African Perspectives on Changing Labor Relations	44
	Worker Strategies and Attitudes	45
	The Best Laid Plans	47
	Tilling the Night Soil	51
	"Well Served" - Domestic Service in the Urban Context	54
	"Well Served" - Relationships in Black and White	57
4	The Components and Costs of Inequality	62
	Prelude to the Indigenato	62
	Sorting out the "Natives" - Differentiation and Solidarity	63
	The Assimilation Morass	64
	The Indigenato: Getting Nothing for Something	69
	The Discourse of Inequality	72
5	Port Labor Struggles to 1933	78
	The Extension of State Control at the Port Complex	78
	Labor Organization in Black and White	82
	The Rise and Fall of Labor Action at the Port Complex	83
	The Depression and the End of an Era	89
6	The New State "For the Good of the Nation" 1926 to 1962	91
	Crisis in African Urban Leadership	92
	Layered Crises - The Region, the Hinterland, and the City	95
	Economy, Immigration, and Entrenched White Advantage	97
	Postwar Expansion and Contradictions	100
7	Tailoring Labor Control in the Postwar Economy Contrasting Perspectives	103
	Indigenato, Carrots, Sticks, and Fences	104
	Registration - Curbing the Majority	105
	Palmatoria - Breaking the Recalcitrant	108
	Fences - Blocking the Upwardly Mobile	109
	Negotiating the Indigenato	111
	Samuel Chipoco Muianga	113
	Tailoring Labor Control to the Postwar Era	114
8	A Hierarchy of Struggles in the Port Sector - 1933-1962	117
	Moving More for Less - The Burgeoning Waterfront	118
	Overtime Strategies - Casual Labor Binges	121
	Confrontation - Manual Labor from the Bottom to the Top	123
	Ducking the System	125
	Pride and Prejudice - Struggles in the Offices	125
	Chibindji's Courtship	127
	Tembe's Pride	128
9	Accommodation, Mobility, and Survival Public Sector Labor, 1933-1962	131
	Municipal Labor in the Urban Context	131
	Networks and Security in the Middle Ranks	132
	Exploitation and "Respect" in the Bottom Ranks	135
	Municipal Shibalo: The Case of Santos Gil	136
10	Accommodation and Mobility - Strategies in the Private Sector Domestic Service, 1933-1962	141
	Domestic Service in the Municipal Context	142
	Domestic Disobedience, Immorality, and Disorder	146
	Toward Feminization	148
	Domestic Service and Male Youths	150
	Conclusion: African Workers and Colonial Racism - Images, Groups, and Individuals	154
	Sources and Bibliography	192
	Annex I: Oral Interview Material	205
	Annex II: Mozambican Work Songs	209
	Index	217