One of the best-written and most carefully researched studies of African labour history I have read.

--Robin Cohen, from the original preface"

One of the most vivid and important works in the history of African labour and its struggles.

--Richard Jeffries, SOAS"

Jeff Crisp is a research associate at the Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford, and an associate fellow at Chatham House. He has previously held senior positions at the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the Global Commission on International Migration. He is also a respected historian who has written widely on African labour history and current affairs.