Review of African Political Economy - Vol. 2 No. 3 Labour Aristocracy? Ghana

Abstract of Article

Title:	The Labour Aristocracy? Ghana
Author:	Richard Jeffries
Location:	Vol.2 No.3 (Summer 1975), pp59-70

Does the African working class constitute a labour aristocracy, absorbing a significant proportion of the surplus, and identifying with the elites and sub-elites in the civil service and expatriate concerns? This thesis is tested against Ghanaian material, in particular the 1961 strike of railway and harbour workers in Sekondi-Takoradi.

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