喀麦隆开发公司沿海种植园雇佣带薪劳动力的父权制障碍和女性反应

IF 0.7 4区 历史学 Q1 HISTORY
Damian T. Akara, Melchisedek Chétima
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摘要:1947年,喀麦隆海岸的大部分原德国种植园被纳入法定机构——喀麦隆发展公司(CDC)的保护之下。和以前的德国种植园主一样,CDC的管理层在维持稳定的劳动力方面面临着巨大的困难。因此,它决定长期而不是临时地雇用妇女,作为一种战略,将男性工人及其家庭留在种植园内,并结束移民工人在庄园的短期工作。不幸的是,女性对种植园征召的积极回应遭到了一些男性亲属的强烈抵制。在此背景下,本文认为,尽管有男性的阻挠,许多女性,尤其是来自格拉斯菲尔德的女性,不顾一切地冲破了既定父权秩序的障碍,进入了所谓的“男性保留地”。在寻求雇佣劳动的过程中,女性希望以获得经济独立的雄心改变现状,这最终将成为她们在社会和经济上获得权力和解放的支柱。
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Patriarchal Obstruction and Female Responses to Wage Labor Recruitment in the Coastal Plantations of the Cameroon Development Corporation
ABSTRACT:In 1947, most of the former German plantations at the coast of Cameroon were brought under the umbrella of a statutory body, the Cameroon Development Corporation (CDC). Like the former German planters, the CDC management faced enormous difficulties in maintaining a stable labor force on its estates. As a result, it decided to recruit women on a permanent rather than casual basis as a strategy of keeping male workers and their families within the plantation locale and to put an end to the short spells of work by migrant laborers in the estates. Unfortunately, women's favorable response to the call for recruitment in the plantations met with stiff resistance from some of their male kin. Against this background, this paper argues that in spite of attempted male obstruction, a number of women, especially from the Grassfields, defied the odds to force their way through the barriers of the established patriarchal order into the so-called "men's reserve." In seeking wage labor, women hoped to change the status quo with the ambition of gaining financial independence, which would eventually serve as backbone to their social and economic empowerment and emancipation.
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