Invisible Hands: Child Labor and the State in Colonial Zimbabwe

by Beverly Carolease Grier

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0325001855
• ISBN13: 9780325001852
• Release Date: November 2005
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.3"