Cultivating change: the long-term impact of forced labour in Mozambique

Margherita Bove, Rute Martins Caeiro, Rachel Coelho, Sam Jones and Patricia Justino

No wp-2024-8, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: Following the abolition of slavery, various forms of compulsory labour were adopted by colonial powers to develop their economies. This paper analyses the contemporary consequences of compulsory cotton production—a forced labour system that operated in colonial Mozambique from 1926 to 1961. During this period, the Portuguese colonial government granted geographic concessions to private companies, within which smallholder farmers were forced to cultivate cotton for payment in cash.

Keywords: Long-run effects; Forced labour; Violence; Gender; Social capital; Regression discontinuity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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