Beverly Grier is a noted America

United States

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n academic in the study of child labor

Child labor

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 Sub-Saharan Africa

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 and former professor of government at Clark University

Clark University

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. Her most recent published book was "Invisible Hands: Child Labor and the State in Colonial Zimbabwe" by Heinemann, 2005. She is also the former President of the African Studies Association

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.

Noted publications

Grier has published many articles and books on Africa besides her most recent, these include "Women in West Africa

West Africa

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" in the Women's Studies Encyclopedia, "Making Sense of Our Differences: African American Women on Anita Hill

Anita Hill

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", Wayne State University Press

Wayne State University Press

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, "Pawns, Porters and Petty Traders: Women in the Transition to Export Agriculture in Ghana", Westview Press

Westview Press

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, "Politics in Niger

Niger

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", Oxford University Press

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, "Contradiction, Crisis and Class Conflict: The State and Capitalist Development in Ghana

Ghana

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 Prior to 1948", Oxford University Press, "Underdevelopment, Modes of Production and the State in Colonial Ghana", African Studies Review

African Studies Review

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, and "Cocoa Marketing in Colonial Ghana: Capitalist Enterprise and the Emergence of a Rural African Bourgeoisie", 1980-1981.

External links

• Faculty biography at Clark University