There Used to Be Order: Life on the Copperbelt After the Privatisation of the Zambia Consolidated Copper Mines

by Patience Mususa

Book Overview

In There Used to Be Order, Patience Mususa considers social change in the Copperbelt region of Zambia following the re-privatization of the large state mining conglomerate, the Zambia Consolidated Copper Mines (ZCCM), in the mid-1990s. As the copper mines were Zambia's most important economic asset, the sale of ZCCM was considered a major loss to the country. More crucially, privatization marked the end of a way of life for mine employees and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472054996
• ISBN13: 9780472054992
• Release Date: October 2021
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 234 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"