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Using a wealth of previously misread or neglected documentation, Grier demonstrates that children and adolescents were a major preoccupation of settlers in the mining and agricultural sectors, of domestic service, and of officials whose task it was to provide conditions favorable to the accumulation of capital. By doing so, she uncovers how the youngest workers resisted attempts to control their mobility and labor. Young workers and migrants employed passive and active forms of resistance to assert or maintain their autonomy from patriarchy, capital, and the state. In addition to being the first historical treatment of child labor and the construction of childhood in African studies, this book is one of the few studies of child labor that represents children as active agents in the construction of their own childhood.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Society & culture: general Social groups

• Full title: Invisible Hands
• Subtitle: Child Labor and the State in Colonial Zimbabwe
• Author: Beverly Carolease Grier
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 304
• EAN: 9780325001869
• ISBN: 0325001863
• ID: 04593305
• Publisher: Heinemann USA
• Weight: 589 g
• Dimensions: 240 × 161 × 21 mm
• Date of publishing: 30. November 2005

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