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Author Penvenne, Jeanne, author.

Title Tarana : mulheres, migração e a economia do caju no sul de Moçambique, 1945-1975 / Jeanne Marie Penvenne ; tradução, António Roxo Leão
Published Woodbridge, Suffolk : James Currey, 2019

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Summary Between the late 1940s and independence in 1975, rural Mozambican women migrated to the capital, Lourenco Marques, to find employment in the cashew shelling industry. This book tells the labour and social history of what became Mozambique's most important late colonial era industry through the oral history and songs of three generations of the workforce. In the 1950s Jiva Jamal Tharani recruited a largely female labour force and inaugurated industrial cashew shelling in the Chamanculo neighbourhood. Seasonal cashew brews had long been an essential component of the region's household, gift and informal economies, but by the 1970s cashew exports comprised the largest share of the colony's foreign exchange earnings. This book demonstrates that Mozambique's cashew economy depended fundamentally on women's work and should be understood as "whole cloth."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes PDF (JSTOR, viewed December 20, 2019)
Subject Cashew nut industry -- Mozambique -- 20th century
Cashew -- Economic aspects -- Mozambique -- 20th century
Women -- Mozambique -- History -- 20th century
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- General.
Cashew nut industry.
Women.
Mozambique.
Genre/Form History.
Form Electronic book
Author Leão, António Roxo, translator.
ISBN 9781787447240
1787447243
Other Titles Women, migration & the cashew economy in Southern Mozambique. Portuguese