The settlers needed labour to work on their plantations. This labour was expected to be provided by the indigenous population. ... In order to mobilize the African labour force, the colonial government then introduced a head tax that was payable by all African household heads. ... Any form of education of the African community was intended to produce a low-level, unskilled labour force. ... In addition almost the entire African labour force was unskilled. ...

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Tellingly, Twain's comment that Peter Pan is uplifting seems to depend on ignoring the fact that each of the "lost- boys is a baby who has fallen out of his pram "when the nurse is looking the other way- and who, if not claimed within seven days, is "sent far away to the Never Land- (Barrie 101). ... In the flux, the familiar may be lost or altered. ... Industrial technologies are not simply tools within the workplace; because they change the terms of work, they inevitably have an impact on the relation of workers to their labour and, hence, on the identities of workers, particularly in t...

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As early as 1914, 40,000 Jews entered Palestine to ˜colonise it and establish a base for the further restoration of Palestine as Israel'.1 However it was when Zionists such as Herzl called for "the labour of land " to be a Jewish entity and thus opposed Arab employment, tensions started to rise. ... Additionally, the Israeli military suffered from the "Syrian Syndrome " which ˜fuelled feelings of exceptional hatred for the Syrian army and people [they] loved to hate them'. ... Whilst proving their military power, Israel lost their only Arab quasi-ally, Jordan, whom th...

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At the beginning of twentieth century, a rich and visionary Scotsman, Sir Daniel MacKinnon Hamilton, who believed in the dictum 'labour conquers everything,' founded. ... Nilima was his student, and she fell in love with Nirmal, being mesmerized by his fiery lectures and impassioned recitations. ...

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Introduction A common contemporary feature across many affluent countries with highly developed economies is the persistence of urban underclass neighborhoods. This phenomenon presents many national and local characteristics, nonetheless a number of common salient features can be pointed out: high unemployment, substance abuse and dependency, widespread delinquency with high incidence of violent crime, low public trust, ethnic polarization, social exclusion, higher than average mortality and morbidity rates, lack of educational qualifications, high rates of teenage pregnancy and single parent ...

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Bismarck's Domestic Policy 1871-1890. Along with getting an IB Paper 3 question about Biz's foreign policy, you might also (instead?) encounter a question about the domestic policy that Biz pursued as Chancellor of the German Empire from 1871-1890. So let's deal with that now. OK? ...

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