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Smuggled Sheep, Smuggled Shepherds: Farm Labour Transformations in Namibia and the Question of Southern Angola, 1933-1975

Moore, Bernard C.

Journal of southern African studies, 2020-11, Vol.47 (1), p.93-125 [Periódico revisado por pares]

Oxford: Routledge

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  • Título:
    Smuggled Sheep, Smuggled Shepherds: Farm Labour Transformations in Namibia and the Question of Southern Angola, 1933-1975
  • Autor: Moore, Bernard C.
  • Assuntos: 20th century ; Agricultural technology ; Agriculture ; Angola ; Contract labor ; Employers ; farm labour ; Farmers ; Farms ; fencing ; homelands ; karakul sheep ; Labor history ; Labor relations ; labour migration ; Manual workers ; Migrants ; Migration ; Namibia ; Political economy ; Politics ; Post World War II period ; Recruitment ; Recruits ; Sheep ; Shortages ; Smuggling ; Subsidies ; Technology ; World War II
  • É parte de: Journal of southern African studies, 2020-11, Vol.47 (1), p.93-125
  • Descrição: This article considers the history of labour relations within Namibia's agricultural sector, with specific emphasis on the karakul sheep industry. It examines debates concerning shortages of shepherds and the increasing efforts on the part of (white) sheep farmers in southern Namibia to import contract labourers from northern Namibia and southern Angola. The ability of local Nama labourers in southern Namibia to desert abusive employers and return to reserves (albeit overcrowded) caused farmers to rely increasingly, from the late 1930s, on migrant shepherds, with illegally recruited Angolans rising in importance - making up over 40 per cent of total recruits throughout the mid 20th century. The reopening of Namibia's mines and industries after the Second World War, alongside increased Portuguese recruitment of Angolans from Cunene province for their own karakul industry (founded with smuggled rams), caused white farmers to change strategy abruptly from the mid 1950s. With heavy subsidies from the South West Africa Administration, farmers invested in labour-saving technological improvements on the sheep farms themselves, particularly jackal-proof fencing, transforming a shepherd-intensive industry into a near shepherdless one in less than a decade. This, along with the development of homeland structures, gave white farmers the leverage to reinvigorate informal, ad hoc labour hire. Using Namibian, Angolan and South African sources, this article reconstructs the transnational political economy of labour in Namibia's sheep-farming sector, and it considers how transformations in agricultural technology restructures labour hire, often away from 'formal' contract waged labour towards other forms of exploitative labour relations.
  • Editor: Oxford: Routledge
  • Idioma: Inglês
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