Coercion, paternalism and the labour process: the Mozambican cotton regime 1938–1961

Isaacman, Allen

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“…However, due to the rising demand for cotton from the metropolitan textile industry, Portugal introduced forced cotton cropping in certain zones of Mozambique in 1926, the same year as the military coup that overthrew the Republican government. 69 In Zambezia, this was done by means of concessions to small private companies. In 1938, the Cotton Export Board was established to supervise the cotton industry in the colony.…”

Section: Centre: the Land Of Concessions And Forced Labourmentioning

confidence: 99%

Colonial State Formation Without Integration: Tax Capacity and Labour Regimes in Portuguese Mozambique (1890s–1970s)

Alexopoulou

Juif

2017

Int Rev of Soc His

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Samir Amin (1972) divided the African continent into three “macro-regions of colonial influence” with distinct socio-economic systems and labour practices: Africa of the colonial trade or peasant economy, Africa of the concession-owning companies, and Africa of the labour reserves. We argue that Mozambique encompassed all three different “macro-regions” in a single colony. We reconstruct government revenue (direct/indirect taxes) raised at a district level between 1930 and 1973 and find persisting differences in the “tax capacity” of the three regions throughout the colonial period. The tax systems, we claim, developed in response to existing local geographic and economic conditions, particularly to labour practices. Portuguese colonial rule adapted to and promoted labour practices such as migration and forced labour to maximize revenue. The extent to which the lack of integration played a role in the post-colonial state and fiscal failure should be studied further.

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Section: Centre: the Land Of Concessions And Forced Labourmentioning

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Colonial State Formation Without Integration: Tax Capacity and Labour Regimes in Portuguese Mozambique (1890s–1970s)

Alexopoulou

Juif

2017

Int Rev of Soc His

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“…Indeed, building on pre-colonial custom and the patrilineal family system that upheld men's power as absolute rulers of their households, Portuguese colonial policies under the right-wing authoritarian regime of the 'Estado Novo' were also keen to disseminate the ideals of a male breadwinner model, instigating, or even forcing, Mo-zambican men to enter the wage-earning system. This ideological view was also supported by Christianisation processes and the fallacious archetype of the assimilado 8 , which to a certain degree survived as a legitimate model long after being abolished in 1961 (Arnfred 2001, Isaacman 1992. Pre-colonial custom and the impositions of colonial ideology conspired to construct men as breadwinners, an ideal that still moulds the aspirations of many men, particularly in the older generation.…”

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Sexualized bodies: Masculinity, power and identity in Mozambique

Aboim¹

2012

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Drawing on ethnographic work carried out among Mozambican men living in Maputo (the capital of Mozambique), this paper intends to describe how subordinate men from a poor background are reconstructing their masculinity through the explicit sexualization of their self. It has been shown that among poor Mozambican men the lack of money or other material goods is compensated by complex practices and a variety of discourses on sex and sexuality. Sexuality, and its bodily enactment, is then used to reconstruct a powerful sense of manhood, which may take a variety of forms ranging from identification with the norm of the 'good lover' to more struggle-based discourses. All of these strategies imply an explicit investment in various forms of 'bodily capital', which may lead to the building up of a phallocentric masculinity, though women's sexual agency is not ignored. In male discourse, a value is attributed to goods, whether material or symbolic, which function discursively according to an imagery of economic exchange as if the body were a commodity, a discursively constructed capital of manhood. Through a number of ethnographic examples, I will contend that we can consider masculinity as a complex structure of capitals that can be enacted in different spheres and with different meanings. As a result, different power hierarchies can be reconstructed and a degree of plurality may be incorporated into what we consider hegemonic masculinity. Sexuality and sex, while performed through a bodily hexis and discourses on power and control, are at the core of these processes and represent a vital constituent of the male self.

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“…Sena Sugar Estates Limited became the colony's largest producer and exporter. However, due to the rising demand for cotton from the metropolitan textile industry, Portugal introduced forced cotton cropping in certain zones of Mozambique in 1926, the same year as the military coup that overthrew the Republican government (Isaacman 1992). In Zambezia this was done by means of concessions to small private companies.…”

Section: Centre: the Land Of Concessions And Forced Labourmentioning

confidence: 99%

An anatomy of colonial states and fiscal regimes in Portuguese Africa: long-term transformations in Angola and Mozambique, 1850s-1970s

Alexopoulou¹

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Samir Amin (1972) divided the African continent into three "macro-regions of colonial influence" with distinct socioeconomic systems and labour practices: Africa of the colonial trade or peasant economy, Africa of the concession-owning companies, and Africa of the labour reserves. We argue that Mozambique encompassed all three different "macro-regions" in one sole colony. We reconstruct government revenue (direct/indirect taxes) raised at a district level between 1930 and 1973 and find persisting differences in the "tax capacity" of the three regions throughout the colonial period. The tax systems, we claim, developed in response to existing local geographic and economic conditions, particularly to labour practices. Portuguese colonial rule adapted to and promoted labour practices such as migration and forced labour to maximize revenue. The extent to which the lack of integration played a role in the post-colonial state and fiscal failure should be studied further.

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Coercion, paternalism and the labour process: the Mozambican cotton regime 1938–1961

Cited by 13 publications

References 10 publications

Colonial State Formation Without Integration: Tax Capacity and Labour Regimes in Portuguese Mozambique (1890s–1970s)

Colonial State Formation Without Integration: Tax Capacity and Labour Regimes in Portuguese Mozambique (1890s–1970s)

Sexualized bodies: Masculinity, power and identity in Mozambique

An anatomy of colonial states and fiscal regimes in Portuguese Africa: long-term transformations in Angola and Mozambique, 1850s-1970s

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