Minors in Name Only: Child Laborers on the Diamond Mines of the Companhia de Diamantes de Angola (Diamang), 1917-1975

• Published in: Journal of family history Vol. 35; no. 1; pp. 91 - 110
• Main Author: Cleveland, Todd
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Los Angeles, CA SAGE Publications 01.01.2010; SAGE PUBLICATIONS, INC
• Subjects: Agriculture - economics; Agriculture - education; Agriculture - history; Agriculture - legislation & jurisprudence; Angola; Angola - ethnology; Child; Child Abuse - economics; Child Abuse - ethnology; Child Abuse - history; Child Abuse - legislation & jurisprudence; Child Abuse - psychology; Child Labor; Child labour; Child Welfare - economics; Child Welfare - ethnology; Child Welfare - history; Child Welfare - legislation & jurisprudence; Child Welfare - psychology; Childhood; Colonialism; Colonialism - history; Diamond - economics; Diamond - history; Diamond mines; Employment - economics; Employment - history; Employment - legislation & jurisprudence; Employment - psychology; Exploitation; History, 20th Century; Humans; Labour history; Mining - economics; Mining - education; Mining - history; Mining - legislation & jurisprudence; Mining Industry; Minority & ethnic groups; Minors - education; Minors - history; Minors - legislation & jurisprudence; Minors - psychology; Social Conditions - economics; Social Conditions - history; Social Conditions - legislation & jurisprudence; Social Control Policies - economics; Social Control Policies - history; Social Control Policies - legislation & jurisprudence; Social history; Socioeconomic Factors; Twentieth Century; Working conditions; Angola; colonialism; exploitation; Angola; mining; childhood; child labor

Although African men and women comprised the vast majority of the labor force on Angola’s colonial-era diamond mines, child laborers, or “minors,” also played important roles, primarily as mineworkers and plantation laborers. While these young male and female laborers’ daily tasks were often lighter...