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Labour and Living Standards in Pre-Colonial West Africa: The Case of the Gold Coast

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Sub-Saharan Africa is the poorest region in the world. But its current status has skewed our understanding of the economy before colonization. Rönnbäck reconstructs the living standards of the population at a time when the Atlantic slave trade brought money and men into the area, enriching our understanding of West African economic development.

Author(s): Klas Ronnback
Series: Perspectives in Economic and Social History
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2015

Language: English
Pages: 253

Cover
Title
Copyright
Contents
List of figures
List of tables
List of graphs
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
1 Introduction: theory and method
2 Previous research: the Gold Coast in African economic history
3 Sources and source criticism
4 Work ethic and the division of labour
5 Work and wages at the Cape Coast Castle
6 Domestic markets for goods
7 Housing and material wealth
8 Living standards in a comparative perspective
9 Concluding discussion
References
Index
A note on Anti-Slavery International