Author: Duncan Money
Publisher: Studies in Global Social Histo
ISBN: 9789004467330
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Introduction: the world of White labour -- Making copper, making the copperbelt -- The wild west in Central Africa, 1926-39 -- A good war, 1940-47 -- Fruits of their labour, 1948-55 -- Trouble in paradise, 1956-62 -- Surviving independence, 1963-74.
White Mineworkers on Zambia's Copperbelt, 1926-1974
Author: Duncan Money
Publisher: Studies in Global Social Histo
ISBN: 9789004467330
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Introduction: the world of White labour -- Making copper, making the copperbelt -- The wild west in Central Africa, 1926-39 -- A good war, 1940-47 -- Fruits of their labour, 1948-55 -- Trouble in paradise, 1956-62 -- Surviving independence, 1963-74.
Publisher: Studies in Global Social Histo
ISBN: 9789004467330
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Introduction: the world of White labour -- Making copper, making the copperbelt -- The wild west in Central Africa, 1926-39 -- A good war, 1940-47 -- Fruits of their labour, 1948-55 -- Trouble in paradise, 1956-62 -- Surviving independence, 1963-74.
Mineworkers in Zambia
Author: Miles Larmer
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN: 9781350175235
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN: 9781350175235
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Mineworkers in Zambia
Author: Miles Larmer
Publisher: I.B. Tauris
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
The received view of Zambia's mineworkers is of a reactionary body unable and unwilling to shape progressive politics in post-colonial Zambia. Miles Larmer seeks to use a whole range of little-used sources to dispel this myth. Extensive interviews with mineworkers and their wives reveals a working-class consciousness and a whole host of social and economic expectations that shaped their attitude towards political change. Mineworkers in Zambia gives this misunderstood group a place in the movement for political reform which culminated in the transition to multiparty democracy in 1991, and in so doing draws important lessons for the wider social and political history of post-colonial Africa.
Publisher: I.B. Tauris
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
The received view of Zambia's mineworkers is of a reactionary body unable and unwilling to shape progressive politics in post-colonial Zambia. Miles Larmer seeks to use a whole range of little-used sources to dispel this myth. Extensive interviews with mineworkers and their wives reveals a working-class consciousness and a whole host of social and economic expectations that shaped their attitude towards political change. Mineworkers in Zambia gives this misunderstood group a place in the movement for political reform which culminated in the transition to multiparty democracy in 1991, and in so doing draws important lessons for the wider social and political history of post-colonial Africa.
For Whom the Windfalls?
Author: Alastair Fraser
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Copper industry and trade
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Copper industry and trade
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Expectations of Modernity
Author: James Ferguson
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 052092228X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Once lauded as the wave of the African future, Zambia's economic boom in the 1960s and early 1970s was fueled by the export of copper and other primary materials. Since the mid-1970s, however, the urban economy has rapidly deteriorated, leaving workers scrambling to get by. Expectations of Modernity explores the social and cultural responses to this prolonged period of sharp economic decline. Focusing on the experiences of mineworkers in the Copperbelt region, James Ferguson traces the failure of standard narratives of urbanization and social change to make sense of the Copperbelt's recent history. He instead develops alternative analytic tools appropriate for an "ethnography of decline." Ferguson shows how the Zambian copper workers understand their own experience of social, cultural, and economic "advance" and "decline." Ferguson's ethnographic study transports us into their lives—the dynamics of their relations with family and friends, as well as copper companies and government agencies. Theoretically sophisticated and vividly written, Expectations of Modernity will appeal not only to those interested in Africa today, but to anyone contemplating the illusory successes of today's globalizing economy.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 052092228X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Once lauded as the wave of the African future, Zambia's economic boom in the 1960s and early 1970s was fueled by the export of copper and other primary materials. Since the mid-1970s, however, the urban economy has rapidly deteriorated, leaving workers scrambling to get by. Expectations of Modernity explores the social and cultural responses to this prolonged period of sharp economic decline. Focusing on the experiences of mineworkers in the Copperbelt region, James Ferguson traces the failure of standard narratives of urbanization and social change to make sense of the Copperbelt's recent history. He instead develops alternative analytic tools appropriate for an "ethnography of decline." Ferguson shows how the Zambian copper workers understand their own experience of social, cultural, and economic "advance" and "decline." Ferguson's ethnographic study transports us into their lives—the dynamics of their relations with family and friends, as well as copper companies and government agencies. Theoretically sophisticated and vividly written, Expectations of Modernity will appeal not only to those interested in Africa today, but to anyone contemplating the illusory successes of today's globalizing economy.
Labor and Capital on the African Copperbelt
Author: Jane L. Parpart
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781439917985
Category : Class consciousness
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781439917985
Category : Class consciousness
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
Living the End of Empire
Author: Jan-Bart Gewald
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004209867
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Building on the foundational work of the Rhodes-Livingstone Institute, the essays contained in Living the End of Empire offer a more nuanced and complex picture of the late-colonial period in Zambia than has hitherto been presented in nationalist histories.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004209867
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Building on the foundational work of the Rhodes-Livingstone Institute, the essays contained in Living the End of Empire offer a more nuanced and complex picture of the late-colonial period in Zambia than has hitherto been presented in nationalist histories.
A Casualty of Power
Author: Mukuka Chipanta
Publisher: African Books Collective
ISBN: 177922298X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
He boarded the inter-city bus and set off on the six-hour journey to Lusaka - Christopher Columbus en route to discover a new world. Hamoonga Moyas journey would take him a long way from the township of his youth on the Zambian Copperbelt. Life in the capital brought him new friends, and new ideas, and his journalism studies introduced him to ethical dilemmas. Should we take sides when looking at the social impact of the Chinese-owned mines? Who should we blame for the impoverishment of our citizens - the new owners, or the government that made the sale? Is a stadium worth more than a hospital? Outside the classroom, Hamoongas life, and his hope for the future, were soon entangled in a web of greed, international crime, and betrayal. Only in the end will he know who his true friends are.
Publisher: African Books Collective
ISBN: 177922298X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
He boarded the inter-city bus and set off on the six-hour journey to Lusaka - Christopher Columbus en route to discover a new world. Hamoonga Moyas journey would take him a long way from the township of his youth on the Zambian Copperbelt. Life in the capital brought him new friends, and new ideas, and his journalism studies introduced him to ethical dilemmas. Should we take sides when looking at the social impact of the Chinese-owned mines? Who should we blame for the impoverishment of our citizens - the new owners, or the government that made the sale? Is a stadium worth more than a hospital? Outside the classroom, Hamoongas life, and his hope for the future, were soon entangled in a web of greed, international crime, and betrayal. Only in the end will he know who his true friends are.
We the Miners
Author: Andrea G. McDowell
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674248112
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
The California Gold Rush is thought to exemplify the Wild West, yet miners were expert organizers. Driven by property interests, they enacted mining codes, held criminal trials, and decided claim disputes. But democracy and law did not extend to “foreigners” and Indians, and miners were hesitant to yield power to the state that formed around them.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674248112
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
The California Gold Rush is thought to exemplify the Wild West, yet miners were expert organizers. Driven by property interests, they enacted mining codes, held criminal trials, and decided claim disputes. But democracy and law did not extend to “foreigners” and Indians, and miners were hesitant to yield power to the state that formed around them.
Zambia in Pictures
Author: Bella Waters
Publisher: Twenty-First Century Books
ISBN: 157505955X
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Describes the geography, climate, wildlife, natural resources, history, politics, culture, economy, and government of Zambia.
Publisher: Twenty-First Century Books
ISBN: 157505955X
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Describes the geography, climate, wildlife, natural resources, history, politics, culture, economy, and government of Zambia.