Серия "Perspectives on Southern Africa"

Once lauded as the wave of the African future, Zambia&apos;s economic boom in the 1960s and early 1970s was fueled by the export of copper and other primary materials. Since the mid-1970s, however, the urban economy has rapidly deteriorated, leaving workers scrambling to get by. <i>Expectations of Modernity</i> explores the social and cultural responses to this prolonged period of sharp economic decline. Focusing on the experiences of mineworkers in the Copperbelt region, James...