Mineworkers in Zambia: Labour and Political Change in Post-Colonial Africa
Author:   Dr Miles Larmer (Associate Professor of African History, Oxford University, UK)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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9781350175235


Pages:   272
Publication Date:   20 August 2020
Format:   Paperback
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Mineworkers in Zambia: Labour and Political Change in Post-Colonial Africa


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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.

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Author:   Dr Miles Larmer (Associate Professor of African History, Oxford University, UK)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic
Weight:   0.331kg
ISBN:  

9781350175235


ISBN 10:   1350175234
Pages:   272
Publication Date:   20 August 2020
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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Acknowledgements - vii Map of the Zambian Copperbelt - ix Introduction - 1 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 Conclusion - 191 Notes - 205 Appendix 1: Interviewees - 237 Appendix 2: Zambian Copper Mining Industry Statistics - 249 Bibliography - 251 Glossary - 264 Index - 267

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Miles Larmer is Lecturer in Post-1945 Global History at Sheffield Hallam University.

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