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The first comparative historical analysis - local, national and transnational - of the cross-border Central African copperbelt; a key work in studies of labour, urbanisation and African studies.

Labor. --- Labor and laboring classes --- Manpower --- Work --- Working class --- Copperbelt Province (Zambia) --- Zambia --- History. --- Labor --- Social change --- Urbanization --- Zambie --- Travail --- Changement social --- Urbanisation --- Histoire --- Ceinture cuprifère d'Afrique centrale

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Living for the City is a social history of the Central African Copperbelt, considered as a single region encompassing the neighbouring mining regions of Zambia and the Democratic Republic of Congo. The Haut-Katanga and Zambian Copperbelt mine towns have been understood as the vanguard of urban 'modernity' in Africa. Observers found in these towns new African communities that were experiencing what they wrongly understood as a transition from rural 'traditional' society - stable, superstitious and agricultural - to an urban existence characterised by industrial work discipline, the money economy and conspicuous consumption, Christianity, and nuclear families headed by male breadwinners supported by domesticated housewives. Miles Larmer challenges this representation of Copperbelt society, presenting an original analysis that integrates the region's social history with the production of knowledge about it, shaped by both changing political and intellectual contexts and by Copperbelt communities themselves. This title is available as Open Access on Cambridge Core

Women --- History. --- Central African Copperbelt (Congo and Zambia) --- Politics and government. --- Ethnic relations. --- Economic conditions. --- Social conditions. --- Human females --- Wimmin --- Woman --- Womon --- Womyn --- Females --- Human beings --- Femininity --- Femme --- Condition sociale --- Condition économique --- Relation ethnique --- Politique et gouvernement --- Ceinture cuprifère d'Afrique centrale --- République démocratique du Congo --- Zambie --- #SBIB:39A4 --- #SBIB:39A73 --- History --- Toegepaste antropologie --- Etnografie: Afrika --- African history --- labor history --- social history