Mineworkers in Zambia : labour and political change in post-colonial Africa / Miles Larmer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Larmer, Miles.

Series:

International library of African studies ; v. 18.

International library of African studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Copper miners--Zambia.

Copper miners.

Miners--Political activity--Zambia.

Miners.

Miners--Political activity.

Zambia.

Zambia--Politics and government--1964-1991.

Politics and government.

Zambia--Politics and government--1991-.

Physical Description:

viii, 270 pages : map ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Tauris Academic Studies ; New York : In the U.S. and Canada distributed by Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Map of the Zambian Copperbelt ix

1 Mineworkers and Political Change in Northern Rhodesia, 1935-1964 29

2 Zambia's Political Economy, 1964 - 1991 42

3 From Independence to the One-Party State, 1964 - 1972 59

4 Talking in Dark Corners, 1973 - 1981 97

5 "The Hour Has Come at the Pit', 1981 - 1991 134

6 "To Die a Little': Political and Economic Liberalisation, 1991 - 2005 173

Appendix 1 Interviewees 237

Appendix 2 Zambian Copper Mining Industry Statistics 249.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [251]-263) and index.

ISBN:

1845112997

9781845112998

OCLC:

68772515