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Work and community among West African migrant workers since the nineteenth century

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Frost, Diane

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Work and community among West African migrant workers since the nineteenth century / Diane Frost. . — Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 1999..

278 p. ill., facsims., map, ports. 24 cm.

In the beginning : Kru country; Colonialism, migration and a diaspora in the making -- Sailors and workers : Early work and recruitment; Nature of work; Labour conditions; 'Alien' seamen in Liverpool; Work palaver -- The Kru community in Freetown : Settlement; Indirect rule; Community and social organisation -- The Kru community in Liverpool : The Kru and the black community; Social profile and organisation; Identity.

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Subjects--Topical Terms:
Kru (African people)--Social conditions.--England--Liverpool
Kru (African people)--Social conditions.--Sierra Leone--Freetown
Kru (African people)--History.--Liberia
Foreign workers, African--History.--Great Britain--Liverpool

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Freetown (Sierra Leone)--Social conditions.
Great Britain--Emigration and immigration--History.
Liverpool (England)--Social conditions.