Labor Consciousness: Orientations Toward Labor Among Swahili-Speaking Mine-Workers

FAIN: RO-11061-72

Northwestern University (Evanston, IL 60208-0001)
Johannes Fabian (Project Director: June 1972 to present)

To introduce a humanistics approach to an important field of social relations. Applying linguistic and hermeneutic techniques to language data in Katanga-Swahili, investigations will concentrate on the specific cultural content of orientations toward the industrial world, among a specific group of African workers.