Economic and social development indicators suggest that the small West African state of Sierra Leone is among the poorest countries in the world. Sierra Leone's economy and quality of life deteriorated rapidly during a decade of political instability and civil war in the 1990s, when many people ...
Labour-Intensive Growth Is Vital: The Last UN Peacekeeping Troops Pulled out of Sierra Leone at the End of 2005, Signalling an End to the Physical Intervention of outside Forces in the Country's Affairs. Can the Country, Now at Peace, Find the Right Economic Formula to Sustain Peace and ...
it obliges States Parties to assist one another in securing the abolition of slavery and the slave trade (Art. 4); adopt laws and regulations giving effect to the purpose of the Convention; and introduce
Sierra LeoneIn Sierra Leone, migration to diamond fields and the development of cash crops have contributed to the increasing integration of the peasantry in the national and global economy. Based on the study of a small northern chiefdom, Sella Limba, we describe how the labour commodification ...
This paper sets out to show by way of illustration how in the Bombali District of Sierra Leone in two fallow seasons - between November, 1962, and June 1964 - the local people by their own voluntary efforts constructed nine school classroom blocks, four piped water supplies and approximately ...
Conway that the colonial state used war-time emergency powers to crush the development of an independent labour movement. The paper also demonstrates the machinery of Britain's manipulation and domination of Sierra Leone's economy, and proceeds from two hypotheses: (i) that during the war, ...
Ginzburg's micro-history. He examines the limits of these two approaches and develops an alternative view. To this end, the chapter shows how textile metaphors inspired by Wittgenstein's later works are useful when considering the space-temporal entanglement of Sierra Leone' mining labour practices...
In the diamond mines of Sierra Leone, the exchange of knowledge and experience between workers and other social actors involved in this extractive industry has contributed significantly to the hybridisation of mining practices. Thus, the variety and complexity of mining practices and work agreements is...