Overview
- Explores the impact of international changes and pressures on the Portuguese Empire after the Second World War
- Compares labour and social policies in the Portuguese Empire with those of other European colonies
- Examines the roles played by Portuguese authorities, international NGOs, diplomats and anti-colonialist activists
Part of the book series: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies (CIPCSS)
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About this book
This volume addresses the ways the ‘native labour’ question in the Portuguese late colonial empire in Africa became a recurrent topic of international and transnational debate and regulation after the Second World War. As other European colonial empires were tentatively transforming their labour and social policies in the aftermath of the war, the Portuguese Empire in Africa resisted significant changes in this domain, preserving a strict dual labour regime. As a result, a growing number of individuals, networks and institutions abroad engaged with labour and social realities in Portuguese African colonies, giving origin to a series of instances of denunciation of labour-related abuses. Portuguese authorities responded to these initiatives by selectively engaging with international norms, languages and mechanisms. However, as global decolonisation gained momentum, international and transnational events and processes would significantly constrain Portuguese imperial and colonial decision-making procedures, with the aim of retaining the empire. Therefore, the ‘native labour’ question became in its own right a crucial political and diplomatic element of the broader struggles over the meaning of Portuguese imperial legitimacy. As this volume argues, these historical processes are critical to properly understanding the history of Portuguese late colonialism and its protracted trajectory of decolonisation.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
José Pedro Monteiro is a Research Fellow at the Communication and Society Research Centre - University of Minho, Portugal. His current research project focuses on the politics of citizenship in the Portuguese late colonial empire. He has been working, for the last few years, on the intersections between international and imperial histories and historiographies. With Miguel Bandeira Jerónimo, he co-edited Internationalism, Imperialism and the Formation of the Contemporary World (Palgrave, 2017). He is currently the coordinator of the research project “Humanity Internationalized: Cases, Dynamics, Comparisons (1945–1980)”, funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Internationalisation of the ‘Native Labour' Question in Portuguese Late Colonialism, 1945–1962
Authors: José Pedro Monteiro
Series Title: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-05140-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-05139-5Published: 23 November 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-05142-5Published: 23 November 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-05140-1Published: 22 November 2022
Series ISSN: 2635-1633
Series E-ISSN: 2635-1641
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 230
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Imperialism and Colonialism, Labor History, African History, History of Modern Europe, World History, Global and Transnational History