A F R I C AN  J O U RN  A L  OF

POLITICAL  ECONOMY

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K.P.  Moseley

Rose Okpara

Contested  Terrains: Social  Relations of Production  and the  Living
Place

Social  Relations of Production in the  Nigerian  Petroleum
Industry: A Case  Study of Contract  Labour
American  Mining  Engineers  and  the  Labour  Structure in the  South
African  Gold  Mines
African  RnlH  Mi  —

bwean Agriculture  and Agro-Industry
N 0 t es  >or  a  P o l i t i c al  Economy  o*  Unemployment  in  Africa

Book  Reviews

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Dani  Nabudere
Okwudiba  Nnoli
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Tama  Tszentes
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Copyright: African Journal of Political Economy AJOPE

Revue Africain D'economie  Politique RADEP
African Association of Political Science AAPS, August, 1987.

Typeset and printed by Jongwe Press, Harare, Zimbabwe.

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POLITICAL  ECONOMY

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AUGUST — 1987

K.P.  Moseley
Contested  Terrains:  Social  Relations
of  Production  and  the  Living  Place 

Rose  Okpara
Social  Relations  of  Production
in  the  Nigerian  Petroleum  Industry:  A  Case  Study
of  Contract  Labour 

M.Z.  Nkosi
American  Mining  Engineers  and  the  Labour  Structure
in  the  South  African  Gold  Mines 

Lloyd  M.  Sachlkonye
Changing  Patterns  of  Employment  and  Labour  Processes
in  Zimbabwean  Agriculture
and  Agro-Industry 

Claude  Ake

Notes  for  a  Political  Economy  of  Unemployment  in  Africa 

Book  Reviews

Gunila  Andrea  and Bjorn  Beckman
The  Wheat  Trap:  Bread  and  Underdevelopment  in  Nigeria

Ibbo  Mandaza  (ed.)
Zimbabwe:  The  Political  Economy  of  Transition,  1980-1986

Thandika  Mkandawire 

M.  Baregu 

Mbulelo  V.  Mzamane
The  Children  of  Soweto:  A  Trilogy

Zaya  Yebo 

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