Labour Relations in a Mining Enterprise Established after Independence

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Title:	Labour Relations in a Mining Enterprise Established after Independence
Author:	Gaidzanwa, Rudo B.
Year:	1991
Periodical:	Zambezia
Volume:	18
Issue:	1
Pages:	49-67
Language:	English
Notes:	biblio. refs., ills.
Geographic terms:	Zimbabwe Southern Africa
Subjects:	labour relations mining companies Development and Technology Economics and Trade Labor and Employment Economics, Commerce Industrial relations mining working conditions conferences
External link:	https://journals.co.za/doi/abs/10.10520/AJA03790622_834
Abstract:	This article is based on research conducted between 1989 and 1991 at a gold mine located in southern Zimbabwe. The mine was established in 1980 as the first postindependence project of a mining multinational with its headquarters in the United Kingdom. The article describes industrial relations at the mine, the role of race and class, issues related to gender and class in industrial relations, and the position of the black personnel superintendent. The conclusion is that mining production relations are not necessarily simple and straightforward or replicable in all contexts. Specific social, economic and political contexts all affect the ways in which work is organized.