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Occupational Commitment and the Mystique of Self-Employment Among Lagos ( Nigeria ) Port and Dock Workers

Author: Affinnih, Yahya
SKU: PMRT.GEN.9515.00316

$219.65

Publisher: The Edwin Mellen Press
Number of Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9780773499515
Publication Date: 1992
Condition: New

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Begins with a sketch of precolonial Nigerian social structure and its accompanying labor relations to provide a basis for assessing the ways in which colonialism gave rise to new social, economic and political institutions as the industrialization processes unfolded. The post-independence social institutions reflect the persistence of colonial patterns. It is also in this context that the contemporary Nigerian port and dock workers’ orientation to life, attitudes toward work, accumulation of wealth, independence, dependence, leisure, and aspirations, etc., are informed and shaped. The concept of work alienation faced by both worker groups enhances our understanding of some of the problems that confront the modern Nigerian working class. Other Africa-Nigeria Books 2005 – Cultural Reflections and the Role of Advertising in the Socio-Economic and National Development of Nigeria 1992 – Art and Islamic Literacy Among the Hausa of Northern Nigeria 1990 – Igbos of Nigeria Ancient Rites, Changes, and Survival

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