Title:	African Railwaymen
Other Titles:	Solidarity and Opposition in an East African Labour Force
Authors:	R. D., Grillo j . R. GOODY
Keywords:	East African Labour Force
Issue Date:	1973
Publisher:	Cambridge
Description:	This monograph deals with a number of problems in the field of urban and industrial anthropology in East Africa. It concerns the members of a largely migrant but nonetheless ' committed' labour force employed as railwaymen in Kampala, Uganda, and shows how workers in this industry form a distinct community, even a subculture, in the urban area. The form of this community is provided by the industrial process which generates a framework by reference to which certain relationships of solidarity and opposition are articulated. Of particular significance in this respect is the differentiation of the labour force in terms of occupation, ' grade', income and position in the industrial hierarchy, factors which give rise to inequalities of status and power and lead to alignments based on relative position in what are conceived of as systems of stratification and class. To this extent the study documents a particular example of the general trend toward status differentiation in urban Africa which has been noted in many recent publications.
URI:	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/9823
ISBN:	978-0-521-10077-9
Appears in Collections:	African Studies

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