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Bezig met laden... City of Steel and Fire: A Social History of Atbara, Sudan's Railway Town, 1906-1984 (Social History of Africa S.)door Ahmad Alawad Sikainga
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Onderdeel van de reeks(en)Social History of Africa (2002)
The Sudanese working-class town of Atbara is the headquarters of the Sudan railways. Nicknamed City of Steel and Fire by Sudanese workers, the town remains a major site of labor activism and radical politics. This book chronicles the struggles of railway workers against the Sudanese colonial and postcolonial governments. Sikainga's text will interest Sudanese scholars, labor historians, and students of radical politics. Based on numerous oral interviews and extensive archival research, this book is destined to become the authoritative text on Sudanese labor history. For more than 50 years, the railway workers of Atbara formed the core of the Sudanese working class and became one of the most dynamic and militant labor movements in Africa and the Middle East. A key characteristic of the Sudanese labor movement was its close association with the Sudanese Communist Party, the second largest communist party in Africa until its termination in 1971. Railway workers contributed to the demise of two military regimes: Ibrahim Abboud in 1964 and Jafaf Nimeiri in 1985. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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 Google Books — Bezig met laden...GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)962.5History and Geography Africa Egypt; Sudan; South Sudan Northern SudanLC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde: (3.5)
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In fact it's a very good view of a number of dynamics as experienced in Africa - urbanisation, industrialisation, the working class, trade unions, Islam and organised labour - and is a useful contribution to the literature which challenges a western view that Africa will develop the same as Europe in this regard.
It's a little disjointed and repetitive in places and could probably have used a bit more editing. And personally I would rather have seen more about the railways themselves, but you can't have everything.
A good and readable book. (