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| Semester | fall semester 2020 |
| Course frequency | Once only |
| Lecturers | Julia Tischler (julia.tischler@unibas.ch, Assessor) |
| Content | Work, labor movements, and the experiences of workers have been prominent topics in African History. In recent years, path-breaking research has ensured that some of the insights thus gained found their way into global debates on work and labour, helping to destabilize Eurocentric narratives about the rise of free wage labor under capitalism, biases towards industrial wage work and underlying assumptions about what constitutes “normal” (i.e. formal rather than informal) work. Focussing on the twentieth century, the lecture explores different types of work in African history (agriculture, transport, mining), gendered patterns of work and labor, labourers’ agency, and key transformations of work in the course of the twentieth century. Have Africans moved “from slavery to precariousness”, as eminent labor historian Frederick Cooper has put it? We will explore broad patterns in a global context, but zoom in on examples of work in specific countries and time periods. |
| Bibliography | Frederick Cooper, Von der Sklaverei in die Prekarität? Oldenburg 2019. Stefano Bellucci, Andreas Eckert (eds), General Labour History of Africa. Workers, Employers and Governments, 20th-21st Centuries. Woodbridge 2019. |
| Comments | The lecture will be held "live" online; details will be provided on ADAM. A recording of the lecture will be available on ADAM during a time span of 5 days after the respective session. |
| Admission requirements | Für Studierende der Geschichte aller Studienfächer und -stufen, Studierende anderer Studienfächer, HörerInnen. |
| Course application | Belegung via Mona. |
| Language of instruction | English |
| Use of digital media | No specific media used |
| Course auditors welcome |
| Interval | Weekday | Time | Room |
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No dates available. Please contact the lecturer.
| Modules |
Modul Fachwissenschaft / Geschichte (Master's Studies: Educational Sciences) Modul: Analysefelder: Strukturen - Prozesse - Transformationen (Master's degree program: European History (Start of studies before 01.08.2018)) Modul: Areas: Afrika (Master's degree program: European History in Global Perspective) Modul: Basics: History (Master's degree program: African Studies) Modul: Basis Neuere / Neueste Geschichte (Bachelor's degree subject: History) Modul: Epochen der europäischen Geschichte: Neuere / Neueste Geschichte (Master's degree program: European History in Global Perspective) Modul: Fields: Governance and Politics (Master's degree program: African Studies) Modul: Profil: Geschichte Afrikas (Master's degree program: European History (Start of studies before 01.08.2018)) Modul: Sachthemen der Ethnologie (Bachelor's degree subject: Anthropology) Modul: Synthese (Master's degree subject: History) Vertiefungsmodul Global Europe: Arbeit, Migration und Gesellschaft (Master's Studies: European Global Studies) |
| Assessment format | record of achievement |
| Assessment details | Exam at the end of the semester. |
| Assessment registration/deregistration | Reg.: course registration; dereg.: not required |
| Repeat examination | one repetition, repetition counts |
| Scale | Pass / Fail |
| Repeated registration | no repetition |
| Responsible faculty | Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, studadmin-philhist@unibas.ch |
| Offered by | Departement Geschichte |