White Mineworkers on Zambia's Copperbelt, 1926-1974

Duncan Money, DPhil. (2016), University of Oxford, is a historian and works at the African Studies Centre Leiden. He has published widely on the mining industry, labour and race and is the co-editor of Rethinking White Societies in Southern Africa (Routledge, 2020).

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List of Illustrations


Introduction: The World of White Labour

 1 Beginnings of Industrial Mining


 2 The Copperbelt in Labour History


 3 The White Working Class on the Mines


 4 Global Labour History and White Workers


 5 Sources


 6 Book Structure


 7 Note on Terminology




1 Making Copper, Making the Copperbelt

 1 Making Copper


 2 The Workplace and the Workers


 3 The Companies


 4 The White Trade Unions




2 The Wild West in Central Africa, 1926–1939

 1 Recruiting the White Workforce


 2 Violence and Danger on the Job


 3 Life in the Mining Camps


 4 The Great Depression


 5 The Self-Identity of White Workers


 6 Unionising the White Workforce


 7 The Case of Tommy Graves


 8 Conclusion




3 A Good War, 1940–47

 1 Wildcat Strikes in 1940


 2 Shifting the Racial Division of Labour


 3 The Closed Shop and White Working-Class Identity


 4 Strikes in Katanga and the Removal of Frank Maybank


 5 Wartime Politics and the Labour Party


 6 Wartime Working Conditions


 7 Artisans, Mobility and Strikes


 8 Return of Frank Maybank


 9 New Management and the End of Hostilities


 10 Conclusion




4 Fruits of their Labour, 1948–55

 1 The High Cost of High Living


 2 Mining Work and Masculinity


 3 Housing and Households


 4 Stabilisation Efforts and the White Workforce


 5 Recruitment and Training of the White Workforce


 6 Formation of the African Mine Workers Union


 7 The Central African Federation and Disappearing White Radicalism


 8 Relations between the Unions


 9 African Advancement and the Racial Division of Labour


 10 Conclusion




5 Trouble in Paradise, 1956–62

 1 The Mining Workforce in the 1950s


 2 Wildcat Strikes and the Rockbreakers’ Dispute


 3 Notions of Skill and the Re-Organisation of Work


 4 Inter-Racial Solidarity and the Liaison Committee


 5 Defeat in the 1958 Strike


 6 Exodus from the Mines and the Mobility of the White Workforce


 7 Changes in the nrmwu and the End of Interracial Collaboration


 8 African Nationalism and the Fleeting Defence of Colonialism


 9 Conclusion




6 Surviving Independence, 1963–74

 1 Independence for Zambia


 2 Mufulira Timberman’s Strike


 3 Life at Zambian Independence


 4 Reinforcing Racial Divisions on the Mines


 5 Restructuring the Mining Workforce


 6 Strikes in 1966 and the Zambian State


 7 Training, Upskilling and ‘advancement’ for White Workers


 8 The Twilight of White Trade Unionism


 9 Nationalisation of the Mining Industry


 10 Slump in the Copper Industry


 11 Conclusion




Conclusion


Appendix Statistical Profile of the Mining Workforce, 1931–1976


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