Corporate profit and race in central African copper mining, 1946-1958

dc.contributor.authorPhimister, I.R. (Ian R.)
dc.date.accessioned2012-03-26T06:53:13Z
dc.date.available2012-03-26T06:53:13Z
dc.date.issued2011
dc.description.abstractThe focus in the literature on the political outcomes of decolonization has resulted in neglect of the business activities that took place from the mid-1940s to the mid-1950s. Missing from existing accounts are the occasions when business turned impending political change to economic advantage. One such shift occurred in the central African copper-mining industry as, first, the promise of racial “partnership” during the shortlived Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland and then the prospect of African majority rule in Northern Rhodesia redefined the political context within which businesses operated. Rather than emphasizing the ethical considerations that influenced business attitudes, this study describes how corporate policies toward the job color bar were shaped by the copper industry’s changing cost structure and profitability.en
dc.description.librariannf2012en
dc.description.urihttp://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=BHRen_US
dc.identifier.citationPhimister, I 2011, 'Corporate profit and race in central African copper mining, 1946-1958', Business History Review, vol. 85, no. 4, pp. 749-774.en
dc.identifier.issn0007-6805 (print)
dc.identifier.issn2044-768X (online)
dc.identifier.other10.1017/S0007680511001188
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/18505
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherCambridge University Pressen_US
dc.rights© 2011 The President and Fellows of Harvard College. This article is embargoed by the publisher until December 2012.en
dc.subjectCentral African copper-mining industryen
dc.subjectProfits and corporate structureen
dc.subjectWages and technological changesen
dc.subjectCosts and African advancementen
dc.subjectPrices and the color baren
dc.subjectCopper mines and mining -- Economic aspects -- Africa, Centralen
dc.subjectCopper industry and trade -- Economic aspects -- Africa, Centralen
dc.subjectCorporate profits -- -- Africa, Centralen
dc.subjectRace relations -- Africa, Central -- Economic aspectsen
dc.titleCorporate profit and race in central African copper mining, 1946-1958en
dc.typeArticleen

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