book chapter
History of the migration in Uganda
Economic development and tribal change: a study of immigrant labour in Buganda • Cambridge, England • Published In 1954 • Pages: 17-51
By: Powesland, P. G..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is an historical account of labor migration in Uganda during the period of British administration. The development of cotton plantations, sugar mills and other industries necessitated a large importation of workers from neighboring countries. Powesland discusses the size of labor force, the flow of the immigrant stream, the wage level and working conditions, and government attempts at regulation. The employment of forced labor by the colonial government in the early period and the changing attitude of the Ganda toward agricultural and manual labor are also given attention. Powesland was a member of the Social Studies Department of Makerere College. His report was a part of the project on the study of immigrant labor in Uganda carried out by the East African Institute of Social Research at the request of the Government of Uganda. See 7: Richards for a study of other aspects of immigrant labor undertaken by the same research project.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- External migration
- Textile agriculture
- Labor supply and employment
- Labor relations
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Ganda
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1998
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Africa
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Eastern Africa
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- book chapter
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Social Scientist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Robert Lee ; 1959
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1900-1947
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Uganda
- NotesAdditional notes
- P. G. Powesland
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 54031964
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Ganda (African people)