TY  - GEN
AB  - Once lauded as the wave of the African future, Zambia'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. Expectations of Modernity 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 Ferguson traces the failure of standard narratives of urbanization and social change to make sense of the Copperbelt's recent history.
AU  - Ferguson, James,
CN  - Proquest Ebook Central
CN  - GN657.R4
CY  - Berkeley, Calif. :
DA  - c1999.
ID  - 446886
KW  - Urban anthropology
KW  - Urbanization
KW  - Industrialization
KW  - Copper industry and trade
KW  - Copper mines and mining
LK  - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/usiricelib-ebooks/detail.action?docID=858756
N2  - Once lauded as the wave of the African future, Zambia'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. Expectations of Modernity 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 Ferguson traces the failure of standard narratives of urbanization and social change to make sense of the Copperbelt's recent history.
PB  - University of California Press,
PP  - Berkeley, Calif. :
PY  - c1999.
SN  - 9780520922280 (electronic bk.)
T1  - Expectations of modernitymyths and meanings of urban life on the Zambian Copperbelt /
TI  - Expectations of modernitymyths and meanings of urban life on the Zambian Copperbelt /
UR  - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/usiricelib-ebooks/detail.action?docID=858756
VL  - 57
ER  -