The African workforce of Zambia

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Title:	The African workforce of Zambia
Author:	Heisler, H.
Year:	1971
Periodical:	Civilisations
Volume:	21
Issue:	4
Pages:	425-435
Language:	English
Geographic term:	Zambia
Subjects:	labour urbanization
Abstract:	Industrialisation in and outside Zambia has evolved labour systems in the course of years, which has affected the rural-urban interrelations in a serious way. As distinct from the system of recruited labour, which involved contracts for a fixed time, after which the labourer returned to his village of origin, the casual labour system made the workers wander about, stimulating herewith rural absenteeism and unemployment in the urban areas. In analysing the process of rural-urban disjunction, the author distinguishes three distinct patterns. First, the existing of a dualistic society in the beginning of industrialisation. Secondly, a supplantation by a heterogeneous society later on, through the attachment of cash-cropping to the money economy, bringing about detribalization. Thirdly, a return to a certain dualistic society again, which is caracterised by an autonomous urban system and a disregarded rural area. It is easy to understand, that such a development has serious repercussions for the subsistence output and the urban employment. Table, notes, French summary.