Class struggles in the Nigerian coal industry, 1914-1949

In-depth study of working class organisation at the Enugu Government Colliery in Nigeria from its opening in 1914 until a massacre of 21 striking miners in 1949.

The dialectics of colonial labour control: class struggle in the Nigerian coal industry, 1914-1949
Carolyn A. Brown

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