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Making Men, Making History: remembering railway work in Cold War Afro-Asian solidarity

In Zambia and Tanzania, a generation of railwaymen is retiring. They are the workers who constructed the TAZARA railway, who labored alongside their Chinese counterparts in the 1970s to build a link from the landlocked Zambian Copperbelt to the Indian Ocean. In their youth they formed a cohort of “n...

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spelling	openedition-oai:revues.org:cliowgh_298 https://doi.org/10.4000/cliowgh.298 urn:doi:10.4000/cliowgh.298 en https://journals.openedition.org/cliowgh/298 2017-04-20T02:00:00Z info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess article info:eu-repo/semantics/article urn:handle:20.500.13089/e3r2 All rights reserved Making Men, Making History: remembering railway work in Cold War Afro-Asian solidarity Clio Belin info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/2554-3822 URI:https://journals.openedition.org/cliowgh Monson, Jamie mémoire masculinité travail Afrique Chine travailleurs du rail néolibéralisme vieillissement récit memory Africa China masculinity railway labor neo-liberalism aging narrative In Zambia and Tanzania, a generation of railwaymen is retiring. They are the workers who constructed the TAZARA railway, who labored alongside their Chinese counterparts in the 1970s to build a link from the landlocked Zambian Copperbelt to the Indian Ocean. In their youth they formed a cohort of “new industrial men,” who shared not only the promise of East African socialist nation-building but also the expectation of providing for families into their old age. As they now retire in the era of economic liberalism, they express feelings of loss and alienation as the state has failed to recognize their contributions. In the face of layoffs and pension payment delays, TAZARA workers mobilize individual and collective memories of railway building to seek both recognition and material security. En Zambie et en Tanzanie, une génération de travailleurs est en train d’atteindre l’âge de la retraite : il s’agit de ceux qui, aux côtés de leurs collègues chinois, ont construit dans les années 1970 le chemin de fer TAZARA, reliant le bassin minier (Copperbelt) zambien à l’océan Indien. Façonnés dans leur jeunesse, ces « nouveaux ouvriers » ont souscrit à la promesse et à l’édification de nations socialistes en Afrique de l’Est, avec l’espoir d’une retraite qui assurerait leurs vieux jours et soutiendrait leurs familles. Mais, prenant leur retraite en pleine époque de néolibéralisme économique, ils expriment leur frustration et leur déception, estimant que l’Etat ne reconnaît pas leur contribution passée à un grand projet. Confrontés à des licenciements ou à des retards dans le versement de leurs pensions, les travailleurs du TAZARA se mobilisent, et mobilisent leurs souvenirs individuels et collectifs, pour obtenir à la fois une reconnaissance et une meilleure sécurité matérielle.
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spellingShingle	mémoire masculinité travail Afrique Chine travailleurs du rail néolibéralisme vieillissement récit memory Africa China masculinity railway labor neo-liberalism aging narrative Monson, Jamie Making Men, Making History: remembering railway work in Cold War Afro-Asian solidarity
description	In Zambia and Tanzania, a generation of railwaymen is retiring. They are the workers who constructed the TAZARA railway, who labored alongside their Chinese counterparts in the 1970s to build a link from the landlocked Zambian Copperbelt to the Indian Ocean. In their youth they formed a cohort of “new industrial men,” who shared not only the promise of East African socialist nation-building but also the expectation of providing for families into their old age. As they now retire in the era of economic liberalism, they express feelings of loss and alienation as the state has failed to recognize their contributions. In the face of layoffs and pension payment delays, TAZARA workers mobilize individual and collective memories of railway building to seek both recognition and material security.
author	Monson, Jamie
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title	Making Men, Making History: remembering railway work in Cold War Afro-Asian solidarity
title_short	Making Men, Making History: remembering railway work in Cold War Afro-Asian solidarity
title_full	Making Men, Making History: remembering railway work in Cold War Afro-Asian solidarity
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