Customary Labour in French colonial Africa. An initial approach
In response to Ousmane O. Sidibé’s book Repenser le travail. Une contribution africaine, this article looks back at customary work in the French colonies in Africa. On the one hand, it seeks to give an account of how it was perceived in certain French-speaking colonial circles, among colonial admini...
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Revue de droit comparé du travail et de la sécurité sociale
2024
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| Linkit: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Yhteenveto: | In response to Ousmane O. Sidibé’s book Repenser le travail. Une contribution africaine, this article looks back at customary work in the French colonies in Africa. On the one hand, it seeks to give an account of how it was perceived in certain French-speaking colonial circles, among colonial administrators and certain missionaries, mainly in Cameroon. Secondly, by looking back at the political debates on the place to be given to local customs and usages in French colonial labour law, which was being established in the overseas territories between the Brazzaville Conference in 1944 and the promulgation of the Overseas Territories Labour Code in December 1952. |
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