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Author Penvenne, Jeanne, author.

Title Women, migration & the cashew economy in Southern Mozambique 1945-1975 / Jeanne Marie Penvenne, Department of History, Tufts University.

Publication Info. Oxford : James Currey, 2015.

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  967.9 P419W    Check Shelf
Description xix, 281 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Contents A century of contestation around cashews -- Tarana: History from the factory floor -- Migration : pathways from poverty to Tarana -- Lives around livelihoods: 'Children are not like chickens' -- African urban families in the late Colonial Era: agency -- Conclusions -- Epilogue: Mozambique's cashew economy, 1975-2014.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary Between the late 1940s and independence in 1975, rural Mozambican women migrated to the capital, Lourenco Marques, to find employment in the cashew shelling industry. This book tells the labour and social history of what became Mozambique's most important late colonial era industry through the oral history and songs of three generations of the workforce. In the 1950s Jiva Jamal Tharani recruited a largely female labour force and inaugurated industrial cashew shelling in the Chamanculo neighbourhood. Seasonal cashew brews had long been an essential component of the region's household, gift and informal economies, but by the 1970s cashew exports comprised the largest share of the colony's foreign exchange earnings. This book demonstrates that Mozambique's cashew economy depended fundamentally on women's work and should be understood as "whole cloth."
Subject Cashew nut industry -- Mozambique -- History -- 20th century.
Women employees -- Mozambique.
Mozambique -- Economic conditions -- To 1975.
Mozambique -- Social conditions -- To 1975.
Cashew nut industry. (OCoLC)fst00848219
Economic history. (OCoLC)fst00901974
Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst01919811
Women employees. (OCoLC)fst01177615
Mozambique. (OCoLC)fst01214418
Chronological Term To 1999
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Added Title Women, migration and the cashew economy in Southern Mozambique 1945-1975
ISBN 9781847011282
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