The internationalisation of the 'native labour' question in Portuguese late colonialism, 1945-1965 / José Pedro Monteiro.
Monteiro, José Pedro, author.
2023
HD4875.P8 M66 2023
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Title The internationalisation of the 'native labour' question in Portuguese late colonialism, 1945-1965 / José Pedro Monteiro.
Author Monteiro, José Pedro, author.
ISBN 9783031051401 electronic book
3031051408 electronic book
3031051394
9783031051395
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-05140-1
Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2023]
Language English
Description 1 online resource (ix, 230 pages).
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-031-05140-1 doi
Call Number HD4875.P8 M66 2023
Dewey Decimal Classification 325/.3469096
Summary This volume addresses the ways the native labour question in the Portuguese late colonial empire in Africa became a recurrent topic of international and transnational debate and regulation after the Second World War. As other European colonial empires were tentatively transforming their labour and social policies in the aftermath of the war, the Portuguese Empire in Africa resisted significant changes in this domain, preserving a strict dual labour regime. As a result, a growing number of individuals, networks and institutions abroad engaged with labour and social realities in Portuguese African colonies, giving origin to a series of instances of denunciation of labour-related abuses. Portuguese authorities responded to these initiatives by selectively engaging with international norms, languages and mechanisms. However, as global decolonisation gained momentum, international and transnational events and processes would significantly constrain Portuguese imperial and colonial decision-making procedures, with the aim of retaining the empire. Therefore, the native labour question became in its own right a crucial political and diplomatic element of the broader struggles over the meaning of Portuguese imperial legitimacy. As this volume argues, these historical processes are critical to properly understanding the history of Portuguese late colonialism and its protracted trajectory of decolonisation. Jose Pedro Monteiro is a Research Fellow at the Communication and Society Research Centre - University of Minho, Portugal. His current research project focuses on the politics of citizenship in the Portuguese late colonial empire. He has been working, for the last few years, on the intersections between international and imperial histories and historiographies. With Miguel Bandeira Jeronimo, he co-edited Internationalism, Imperialism and the Formation of the Contemporary World (Palgrave, 2017). He is currently the coordinator of the research project "Humanity Internationalized: Cases, Dynamics, Comparisons (19451980)", funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology. .
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Series Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies series.
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Intro
Acknowledgments
Contents
1 Introduction
2 The Reconfiguration of International Standards and Portuguese "Native Labour" Policies (1945-1949)
Confronting the "Inanity of Principles"
The Reorganization of the Empire and the Problem of "Native Labour"
3 The End of the "Happy Times": The Renewed Internationalization of Debates on Labour Freedom
That "Which Should Not Be Forgotten"
"Give Remedy to What Can Be Remedied": The Workings of the Ad-Hoc Committee on Forced Labour
Between Social Reform and International Integration

4 A Long and Troubled Process: The Ratification of the 1930 Forced Labour Convention
"A Grain of Truth": Basil Davidson and the Colonial Question in the Empire
The Ratification of Convention No. 29
5 Portuguese Colonialism and the Expansion of the Internationalization of the "Native Labour" Question
Freedom of Work Once Again
Between the "Native" and the "Aboriginal": The ILO and the Imperial Legal-Political Order
A Particular Kind of "Reformism"
6 Ghana's Complaint Against the Portuguese Empire at the ILO (1961-1962)
Internal Reform and External Action

"The Most Advanced Law in All of Africa"
7 Conclusion
References
Index

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