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The internationalisation of the 'native labour' question in Portuguese late colonialism, 1945-1965 / José Pedro Monteiro.

9783031051401 electronic book
3031051408 electronic book
3031051394
9783031051395

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2023]

English

1 online resource (ix, 230 pages).

10.1007/978-3-031-05140-1 doi

HD4875.P8 M66 2023

325/.3469096

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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