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Labor Relations and Population Developments in Tanzania: Sources, Shifts, and Continuities from 1800 to 2000

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 April 2014

Abstract

This article analyzes trends in demography and labor relations in Tanzania for four cross-sections: 1800, 1900, 1950, and 2000. It discusses the quality and nature of the sources available on demography and labor relations in Tanzania for the aforementioned cross-sections. Subsequently, it reconstructs the main trends in the population size and composition, and connects them to the major shifts in labor relations in relation to the major historical events that took place in Tanzania over the last two centuries.

Résumé

Cet article analyse, pour la Tanzanie, les tendances survenues au niveau de la démographie et des relations de travail pour les tranches 1800, 1900, 1950 et 2000 par rapport auxquelles il aborde la qualité et la nature des sources disponibles à ce sujet en Tanzanie. Par conséquence, il reconstruit les tendances marquantes survenues dans la taille et la composition de la population et relie ces données aux changements majeurs qui se sont produits en Tanzanie au cours des deux derniers siècles.

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Labor History and Africa
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Copyright © African Studies Association 2014 

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