Normalizing Force: Archdeacon Walter Owen and the Issue of Communal Labor in Colonial Kenya, 1920-1930

Despite the dispatches from Winston Churchill and L. S. Amery, communal forced labor continued to be used by the state in ways that often contradicted the “communal” mandate of this coercive form of labor. The continuance of communal forced labor was a reflection of the insatiable demand for cheap A...

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Published inCommunal Labor in Colonial Kenya pp. 93 - 113
Main Author Okia, O
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published United States Palgrave Macmillan 2012
Palgrave Macmillan US
Subjects
African history
British & Irish history
Child Labor
Colonial Administration
Colonialism & imperialism
Communal Labor
Corporal Punishment
Unpaid Labour
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Summary:Despite the dispatches from Winston Churchill and L. S. Amery, communal forced labor continued to be used by the state in ways that often contradicted the “communal” mandate of this coercive form of labor. The continuance of communal forced labor was a reflection of the insatiable demand for cheap African labor. Through an examination of the antiforced labor campaign of the Anglican missionary Archdeacon Walter Edwin Owen, this chapter not only delves into the exploitative aspects of communal labor but also explores the difficulties of dealing with forced labor within the colonial administration in Kenya.
Bibliography:An earlier version of this chapter appeared as Opolot Okia, “In the Interests of Community: Archdeacon Walter Owen and the Issue of Communal Forced Labor in Kenya, 1921–1930,” Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History 32, no. 2 (2004): 19–40.
ISBN:0230392954
9780230392953
9781349352159
1349352152
DOI:10.1057/9780230392960_7