Schler Lynn, Bethlehem Louise & Sabar Galia (eds.). — Rethinking Labour in Africa, Past and Present

This insightful and eclectic volume of labour studies, written from a wide range of disciplinary perspectives, helpfully represents an important historiographical and methodological shift away from a Marxist-influenced school of African labour that privileged formal sector workplaces and an essentialised male working-class. This shift, evidenced here by insightful and innovative analyses of women union and community leaders, transnational and “offshore” workspaces, artisanal and artistic work.