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A fascinating study of the lived experiences of migrant laborers trying to cope and creatively adapt to the harsh world of Portuguese colonialism. This book is essential reading for students of migrations interested not only in Mozambique and Southern Africa, but the continent as a whole. --Allen Isaacman, University of Minnesota, author of Dams, Displacement, and the Delusion of Development: Cahora Bassa and Its Legacies in Mozambique, 1965-2007 Zachary Kagan-Guthrie has written an engaging book that makes an important contribution to the history of Mozambique, southern Africa, and labor in Africa. The breadth of the research, combined with deft, careful thinking, means that this book is about far more than African labor. Kagan-Guthrie tells a story that traverses social, economic, political, and emotional terrain, offering readers a marvelous, three-dimensional view of workers' lives. --Eric Allina, University of Ottawa, author of Slavery by Any Other Name: African Life under Company Rule in Colonial Mozambique

Guthrie's book is an excellent work; it conveys, in often glowing prose, the complex social, legal, economic, and political worlds within which both colonial officers and African subjects navigated. Moreover, his work is informed by an acute sense of wanting to humanize and individualize those operating within the continued (yet constantly shifting) landscapes of labor--a world that was, nevertheless, reflective of a violent, racialized, and exploitative Portuguese colonial order. The book thereby evades both the pitfalls of revisionist accounts of colonialism as well as the reductionism of economically centered explanations of labor migrations. For theseaccomplishments, the book deserves a wide readership, and also one beyond academic circles. --American Historical Review Zachary Kagan-Guthrie has written an engaging book that makes an important contribution to the history of Mozambique, southern Africa, and labor in Africa. The breadth of the research, combined with deft, careful thinking, means that this book is about far more than African labor. Kagan-Guthrie tells a story that traverses social, economic, political, and emotional terrain, offering readers a marvelous, three-dimensional view of workers' lives. --Eric Allina, University of Ottawa, author of Slavery by Any Other Name: African Life under Company Rule in Colonial Mozambique A fascinating study of the lived experiences of migrant laborers trying to cope and creatively adapt to the harsh world of Portuguese colonialism. This book is essential reading for students of migrations interested not only in Mozambique and Southern Africa, but the continent as a whole. --Allen Isaacman, University of Minnesota, author of Dams, Displacement, and the Delusion of Development: Cahora Bassa and Its Legacies in Mozambique, 1965-2007

In this path breaking study, Guthrie offers a fresh perspective on laborhistoriography of Southern Africa. Based on extensive interviews as well was wide-ranging research in the colonial archive, Bound for Work offers an important insight into labormigration in central Mozambique. --African Studies Quarterly Guthrie's book is an excellent work; it conveys, in often glowing prose, the complex social, legal, economic, and political worlds within which both colonial officers and African subjects navigated. Moreover, his work is informed by an acute sense of wanting to humanize and individualize those operating within the continued (yet constantly shifting) landscapes of labor--a world that was, nevertheless, reflective of a violent, racialized, and exploitative Portuguese colonial order. The book thereby evades both the pitfalls of revisionist accounts of colonialism as well as the reductionism of economically centered explanations of labor migrations. For theseaccomplishments, the book deserves a wide readership, and also one beyond academic circles. --American Historical Review Zachary Kagan-Guthrie has written an engaging book that makes an important contribution to the history of Mozambique, southern Africa, and labor in Africa. The breadth of the research, combined with deft, careful thinking, means that this book is about far more than African labor. Kagan-Guthrie tells a story that traverses social, economic, political, and emotional terrain, offering readers a marvelous, three-dimensional view of workers' lives. --Eric Allina, University of Ottawa, author of Slavery by Any Other Name: African Life under Company Rule in Colonial Mozambique A fascinating study of the lived experiences of migrant laborers trying to cope and creatively adapt to the harsh world of Portuguese colonialism. This book is essential reading for students of migrations interested not only in Mozambique and Southern Africa, but the continent as a whole. --Allen Isaacman, University of Minnesota, author of Dams, Displacement, and the Delusion of Development: Cahora Bassa and Its Legacies in Mozambique, 1965-2007

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Zachary Kagan Guthrie is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Mississippi.

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