Wartime demand for copper brought the Copperbelt in Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia) to global atttention. By 1945 Northern Rhodesia was supplying nearly 68 per cent of Britain's copper. The boom in the copper-mining industry attracted thousands of mobile, transient European workers. They were part of a primarily English-speaking labour diaspora. Along wih their industrial skills, these men brought with them ideas and traditions from the international labour movement, and retained links with the regions they had come from.
Duncan Money explores the experiences of this white workforce in black Africa in the latest issue of International Review of Social History (vol 60 part 2, August 2015). Other research articles in this issue include:
- Sidney Chalhoub...Conditional Manumission, Labor Contracts, and Slave Emancipation in Brazil (1850s-1888)
- Lerice de Castro Garzoni...Poor Female Workers and Definitions of Vagrancy in Early 20-th Century Rio de Janeiro
- Carissa Honeywell....The Prosecution of the War Commentary Anarchists, 1945
International Review of Social History is published for the International Institute of Social History by Cambridge University Press