Labor and Capital on the African Copperbelt
Author : Jane L. Parpart
Publisher :
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 40,50 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Class consciousness
ISBN : 9781439917985
Author : Jane L. Parpart
Publisher :
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 40,50 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Class consciousness
ISBN : 9781439917985
Author : Hyden Munene
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 33,62 MB
Release : 2022-01-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1538146436
Copper King in Central Africa offers a detailed account of the corporate history of the Rhokana/Rokana Corporation and its Nkana mine. Thematically and chronologically organised, it explores the discovery of viable ores on the Northern Rhodesian/Zambian Copperbelt in the late 1920s, which attracted foreign capital from South Africa, Britain and the USA, prompting the development of the Nkana mine and the formation of the Rhokana Corporation in the early 1930s. It follows through the evolution of the copper mining industry up to the re-privatisation of the Zambian mining sector in 1991. The book ties into a single narrative the disparate themes of corporate organisation, labour relations, and profitability of Rhokana, demonstrating how the firm was, for a time, the most important mining entity in the Northern Rhodesian/Zambian mining industry. Rhokana was both an investment firm on the Copperbelt and a mining company through Nkana mine. Thus, the Corporation was central to the development and profitability of the copper industry in Zambia. Its corporate and labour policies influenced the Copperbelt as a whole. Employing the largest labour force in the mining sector, Rhokana spearheaded the labour movement on the Copperbelt. Its Nkana mine was also the largest producer of copper in the Northern Rhodesian mining industry between 1940 and 1953, and contributed hugely to the war economies of Britain and the USA. Throughout its history, Nkana was also a major source of cobalt. After nationalisation of the mining sector in 1970, Rhokana surrendered its investments in the wider copper industry, but remained central to the Copperbelt’s smelting and refining operations, owning the biggest metallurgical facilities in the industry.
Author : Angela Vergara
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 45,39 MB
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0271047836
Author : Atu Emberson-Bain
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 20,79 MB
Release : 2002-08-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521523219
This 1994 book is a study of gold mining and the development of an indigenous labour force in Fiji.
Author : Miles Larmer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 671 pages
File Size : 40,84 MB
Release : 2021-08-12
Category : History
ISBN : 1108968007
Living for the City is a social history of the Central African Copperbelt, considered as a single region encompassing the neighbouring mining regions of Zambia and the Democratic Republic of Congo. The Haut Katanga and Zambian Copperbelt mine towns have been understood as the vanguard of urban 'modernity' in Africa. Observers found in these towns new African communities that were experiencing what they wrongly understood as a transition from rural 'traditional' society – stable, superstitious and agricultural – to an urban existence characterised by industrial work discipline, the money economy and conspicuous consumption, Christianity, and nuclear families headed by male breadwinners supported by domesticated housewives. Miles Larmer challenges this representation of Copperbelt society, presenting an original analysis which integrates the region's social history with the production of knowledge about it, shaped by both changing political and intellectual contexts and by Copperbelt communities themselves. This title is available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 40,13 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Developing countries
ISBN :
Author : Lyn Schumaker
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 12,52 MB
Release : 2001-07-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780822326731
DIVAn innovative cultural study of a major site of British anthropology, done with methods from the history of science, detailing the development of methods, practices, and work culture in the colonial context./div
Author : Henry Berstein
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 21,36 MB
Release : 2019-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 131784520X
This volume originated in a conference on 'Capitalist Plantations in Colonial Asia', held at the Centre for Asian Studies of the University of Amsterdam and Free University of Amsterdam in September 1990. The contributions to this collection focus on the production of rubber, sugar, tea, and several less strategic plantation crops, in colonial Indochina, Java, Malaya, the Philippines, India, Ceylon, Mauritius and Fiji (although geographically anomalous, both the latter are included because of the centrality to their sugar plantations of indentured labour from India).
Author : R. Southall
Publisher : Springer
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 34,98 MB
Release : 1987-08-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1349187909
Author : Sharon Stichter
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 40,90 MB
Release : 1985-12-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521272131
This 1985 book surveys the literature on labor migration in east, west and southern Africa and interprets it from a political economy perspective.