The Multiplication of Labor: Historical Methods in the Study of Gender and Agricultural Change in Modern Africa
Author(s)
Guyer, Jane I.
Abstract
The difficulty of assessing different interpretations of change in the division of labor in modern African production is looked at. Methods used with theoretical frameworks applying to evolutionary change and the ethnographic present may be wrongly focused for interpretation within a historical time frame. Current methods based on measurement of time, task, and value are reviewed, followed by illustration of the convergence of several theoretically different literatures around study of the rhythmic structures of work and income.
