Decolonization and African society: the labor question in French and British Africa

Introduction Part I. The Dangers of Expansion and the Dilemmas of Reform: 2. The labor question unposed 3. Reforming imperialism, 1935-40 4. Forced labor, strike movements, and the idea of development, 1940-45 Part II. Imperial Fantasies and Colonial Crises: 5. Imperial plans 6. Crises Part III. The Imagining of a Working Class: 7. The systematic approach: the French code du Travail 8. Family wages and industrial relations in British Africa 9. Internationalists, intellectuals, and the labor question Part IV. Devolving Power and Abdicating Responsibility: 10. The burden of declining empire 11. Delinking colony and metropole: French Africa in the 1950s Conclusion: 12. The wages of modernity and the price of sovereignty.