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Original Articles

Proletarianisation, Agency and Changing Rural Livelihoods: Forced Labour and Resistance in Colonial Mozambique

Pages 511-530 | Published online: 04 Aug 2010

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  • Newitt . A History 411 After 1914, a small wage was also paid for penal labour,
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  • Ibid., p. 223.
  • Ibid., p. 222.
  • Ibid., p. 225.
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  • Penvenne . African Workers 152
  • Isaacman . Cotton is the Mother 236 The relationship between productivity and resistance was variable however, across time and between regions. In a CEA study of Lugela, Zambéézia, we found records showing increases in total production, kilogram per producer and kilogram per hectare in the period between 1952 and 1960,
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