Mineworkers in Zambia: Labour and Political Change in Post-Colonial Africa (International Library of African Studies, v. 18)

by Miles Larmer

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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.

  • ISBN10 1845112997
  • ISBN13 9781845112998
  • Publish Date 21 December 2006
  • Publish Status Active
  • Out of Print 4 March 2021
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Imprint I.B. Tauris
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 272
  • Language English