Generous contracts failed to overcome cultivators’ reluctance to leave home for wage work.

Evidence

The contract under which this bond was created between employee and employer had to be fully explained to the former, and signed by both parties. Yet, however generous these conditions may have appeared to the Italian settlers and companies, there was marked reluctance on the part of many cultivating tribesmen to leave their lands and homes, neglecting their own subsistence farming, to work, virtually as prisoners, for foreign masters. Consequently in good seasons, especially, when there was plenty of work at home, the Italian concessionaries at Genale continued to be confronted with the problem of a reluctant and generally inadequate labour force which they overcame, with the connivance of the Administration, by forced recruitment. — I.M. Lewis, I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Somali_ Nation…, 270

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