Mineworkers in Zambia: Labour and Political Change in Post-Colonial AfricaThe 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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Mineworkers and Political Change in Northern | 29 |
Zambias Political Economy 1964 1991 | 42 |
From Independence to the OneParty State 1964 1972 | 59 |
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African AMWU argued Bates Branch Chairman branch officials Branch Vice Burawoy Central challenge Chapter Chief Shop Steward Chililabombwe Chiluba Chingola CISB claimed colonial Committee companies Congress Copper Mines copper price Copperbelt criticised decline demands democracy demonstrated Development discontent elections employment expatriate Frederick Chiluba Government grievances Ibid increased increasingly Independence industrial action Industrial Relations interview Jobs Kabwe Katilungu Kaunda Kenneth Kaunda Kitwe Konkola labour movement Luanshya Lusaka meetings miners Minister MJIC mtgs Mufulira Mukuba multi-party Musonda MUZ leaders MUZ positions MUZ's Mwila National Chairman nationalist Nchanga Ndola negotiations Nkana Nordlund one-party Organising the Political Parpart party Place of birth Political Agora post-colonial President privatisation Rakner role rural Secretary Shop Steward significant Simakuni social sought STOZ strike strike action townships Trade Unions union leaders UNIP UNIP's urban UTUC wages Walamba Whilst workers Zambia's mineworkers Zambian economy ZCCM ZCTU Zimba