Charles Perrings's 1979 study investigates African mineworkers, industrial capitalism, and labor strategies in the copper-producing regions of Central Africa.
Focusing on the Northern Rhodesian and Belgian Congo Copperbelts between 1911 and 1941, Perrings examines the formation and changing position of a wage-earning African workforce. The work situates mining, company policy, recruitment, worker resistance, and household livelihoods within the political economy of colonial rule. Published in the Africana imprint in New York and also issued in Britain by Heinemann, it remains relevant to histories of African labor, colonial extraction, and industrialization. This copy retains its illustrated dust jacket.
Red cloth hardback in a pictorial jacket with noticeable edgewear, chipping, and tears at upper jacket corners and head of spine; interior and hinges appear serviceable.
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