Year: 1966
Type: article
Abstract: The primacy of economic goals in Belgian colonial policy, together with the peculiar features of the Congolese economic structure, has created a functional interdependency between the two racial communities.This enabled the Congolese to free themselves from colonial constraints and to challenge pro gressively the white employers on the labour market.\Vithin the private sector, racial tensions were partly relieved through the necessary "achievement" of professional promotion due to skilled manpower bottlenecks, whereas they culminated within the Civil Service, where Congolese employees conquered a privileged "ascriptive" status.The latter did not question the socio-economic system installed in the colony, and therefore reinforced social tensions opposing the new Congolese social classes.
Source: Anthropologica
DOI: 10.2307/25604702
Author: André Lux
Language: French
Subfield: Anthropology
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W2610274126