Zimbabwe : a history of manufacturing, 1890-1995 / A.S. Mlambo, E.S. Pangeti, and I. Phimister.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mlambo, A. S.

Contributor:

Pangeti, E. S.

Phimister, I. R. (Ian R.)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Manufacturing industries--Zimbabwe--History.

Manufacturing industries.

History.

Zimbabwe--Economic conditions.

Zimbabwe.

Economic conditions.

Physical Description:

132 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

Harare, Zimbabwe : University of Zimbabwe Publications, 2000.

Summary:

In the early years of European colonisation, mining and agriculture were the bases of the Rhodesian colonial economy and manufacturing was virtually non-existent. This study traces the origins and early development of the sector in the inter-war years and its rapid growth during the second world war and the Central African Federation years. It also analyses the fortunes of the manufacturing industry in the troubled Unilateral Declaration of Independence years when international economic sanctions and an escalation of and debilitating war of liberation threatened the sector. Finally the book examines developments in the post-colonial period up to, and including, the years of the Economic Structural Adjustment Programme of the 1990s.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 125-128) and indexes.

ISBN:

0908307845

OCLC:

47628204