Labor Relations and Population Developments in Tanzania: Sources, Shifts, and Continuities from 1800 to 2000

This article analyses trends in demography and labor relations in Tanzania for four cross-sections: 1800, 1900, 1950 and 2000. The article discusses the quality and nature of the sources available on demography and labor relations in Tanzania for the aforementioned cross-sections. Subsequently, it reconstructs the main trends in the population size and composition, and connects them to the major shifts in labor relations in relation to the major historical events that took place in Tanzania over the last two centuries.