Publications

bOOKS

White Mineworkers on Zambia’s Copperbelt, 1926-74: In a Class of Their Own (Brill: Leiden, 2021) [Open Access version]

Born with a Copper Spoon: A Global History of Copper, 1830-1980 (Vancouver: University of British Colombia Press, 2022) [with Robrecht Declercq and Hans Otto Frøland]

Rethinking White Societies in Southern Africa, 1930s–1990s (London: Routledge, 2020) [with Danelle van Zyl-Hermann]

JOURNAL ARTICLES

‘The Life and Legacies of Kenneth Kaunda in Southern Africa’, Zambia Social Science Journal 9, 1 (forthcoming, 2023). With Marja Hinfelaar and Mary Mbewe.

The Struggle for Air: Mining, Dust and Death on the South African Rand’, Arcadia 6 (2023).

Defamation of the president, racial nationalism, and the Roy Clarke affair in Zambia‘, African Affairs, 112, 486 (2023): 33-55. [with Sishuwa Sishuwa] [Open Access PDF]

‘‘Ain’t I a bastard, well I received my training in Aussie’: The life of Frank Maybank, an Australian trade unionist in Central Africa’, Labour History, 122, 1 (2022): 131-154. [Open Access PDF]

Race at Work: A Comparative History of Mining Labor and Empire on the Central African Copperbelt and the Fushun Coalfields, c. 1907-1945’, International Labor and Working-Class History, 101 (2022): 100-117 [with Limin Teh]

Revisiting White Labourism: Working-Class Whiteness in Twentieth-Century Southern Africa’, International Review of Social History, 66, 3 (2021): 469-491 [with Danelle van Zyl-Hermann]

“A Fundamental Human Right”? Mixed-Race Marriage and the Meaning of Rights in the Postwar British Commonwealth’, Comparative Studies in Society and History, 63, 3 (2021): 655-684 [with Jon Piccini] [Open Access PDF]

‘Not Wholly Justified’: The Deferred Pay Interest Fund and Migrant Labour in South Africa’s Gold Mining Industry, c.1970-1990’, Journal of Southern African Studies, 47, 3 (2021): 1-21 [with Michael Glover]

Rebalancing the historical narrative or perpetuating bias? Digitizing the archives of the Mineworkers’ Union of Zambia’, History in Africa, 48 (2021): 61-82.

Africa–EU relations and natural resource governance: understanding African agency in historical and contemporary perspective‘, Review of African Political Economy, 47, 166 (2020): 585-603. [with Hans Otto Frøland and Tshepo Gwatiwa] [Open Access PDF]

‘Aliens’ on the Copperbelt: Zambianization, nationalism and non-Zambian Africans in the mining industry’, Journal of Southern African Studies, 45, 5 (2019): 859-75. [Open Access PDF]

Race and Class in the Postwar World: The Southern African Labour Congress‘, International Labor and Working-Class History, 94 (2018): 133-55. [Open Access PDF]

Trouble in paradise: The 1958 white mineworkers’ strike on the Zambian Copperbelt’, Extractive Industries and Society, 4, 4 (2017): 707-16. [Open Access PDF]

“There are worse places than Dalmuir!” Glaswegian riveters on the Clyde and the Copperbelt‘, Labour History Review, 80, 3 (2015): 273–92. (Awarded the 2015 Labour History Review essay prize) [Open Access PDF]

The World of European Labour on the Northern Rhodesian Copperbelt, 1940-1945‘, International Review of Social History, 60, 2 (2015): 225-55.

BOOK CHAPTERS

‘American Mining Engineers and the Global Copper Industry, c.1880-1945’, in Robrecht Declerq, Hans Otto Frøland and Duncan Money (eds.), Born with a Copper Spoon: A Global History of Copper, 1830-1980 (Vancouver: University of British Colombia Press, 2022), 72-92. [Open Access PDF]

‘Zambia: Changes in Occupational Structure and Key Industrial Sectors, 1900-2000’, in Andrew Cohen and Rory Pilossof, Labour and Economic Change in Southern Africa c.1900-2000: Zimbabwe, Zambia and Malawi (London: Routledge, 2021), 104-153 [with Andrew Cohen and Rory Pilossof]

Divergence and Convergence on the Copperbelt: White mineworkers in comparative perspective, 1911-63’, in Miles Larmer, et. al. (eds.), Across the Copperbelt: Urban & Social Change in Central Africa’s Borderland Communities (James Currey: Woodbridge, 2021), pp. 77-100.

Underground Struggles: The Early Life of Jack Hodgson’, in Klaas van Walraven (ed.), The Individual in African History: The Importance of Biography in African Historical Studies (Leiden: Brill, 2020), pp. 170-193. [Open Access PDF]

The Dog that Didn’t Bark: White Mineworkers at Zambian Independence’, in Duncan Money and Danelle van Zyl-Hermann (eds.), Rethinking White Societies in Southern Africa, 1930s-1990s (London: Routledge, 2020), pp. 154-172.

South Africa’s Divided Trade Unions and the International Labour Movement’, in Stefano Belluci and Holger Weiss (eds.), The Internationalisation of the Labour Question: Ideological Antagonism, Workers’ Movements and the ILO since 1919 (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020), pp. 383-408. [Open Access PDF]

Introduction: India in Edinburgh, 1780 to the present day’, in Roger Jeffrey (ed.), India In Edinburgh, 1750s to the Present (London: Routledge, 2019), pp. 1-21. [with Roger Jeffrey]

ENCYCLOPAEDIA ENTRIES

Sources for the History of the Copperbelt’, Oxford Research Encyclopaedia of African History (February 2022).

PHD THESIS

‘No matter how much or how little they’ve got, they can’t settle down’: a social history of Europeans on the Zambian Copperbelt, 1926-1974‘, D.Phil. in History, University of Oxford, 2016.

ESSAYS AND REVIEWS

Peer review is broken. Paying referees could help fix it‘, Times Higher Education, 5 May 2023.

This Year in History: The 1922 Rand Revolt‘, Southern Africa Historical Journal (2023), 24 April 2023.

Review: Workers of the Empire, Unite: Radical and Popular Challenges to British Imperialism, 1910s–1960s, edited by Yann Béliard and Neville Kirk (eds)‘, Twentieth Century British History (2023): hwad021

The Transformative and Hungry Technologies of Copper Mining‘, Edge Effects, 16 March 2023.

Copper transformed way the world works before: it’s about to do so again‘, The Conversation, 23 January 2023. (Republished on Yahoo News and MSN)

Grant-getting targets have made academia resemble T-shirt selling‘, Times Higher Education, 4 January 2023.

Review: Inside mining capitalism: The micropolitics of work on the Congolese and Zambian Copperbelts, by Benjamin Rubbers‘, African Affairs 122, 486 (2023): 171-173.

Review: There Used to Be Order: Life on the Copperbelt after the Privatisation of the Zambia Consolidated Copper Mine by Patience Mususa‘, Africa 92, 5 (2022): 889-890.

Frank Maybank, an Australian trade unionist in Central Africa‘, Radical Currents 2 (Summer 2022).

Review: Settlers at the end of Empire: Race and the Politics of Migration in South Africa, Rhodesia, and the United Kingdom by Jean P. Smith‘, Reviews in History, Review no. 2469 (December 2022).

The 1922 Rand Revolt – White Workers’ Marikana?‘, Amandla! 85/86 (December 2022)

Review: War and Society in Colonial Zambia, 1939–1953, by Alfred Tembo‘, African Studies Review (2022): 1-3.

Getting Things ‘Write’: Constructive Criticism, Confidence and Community in the Southern Africa Writing Group‘, ASCL Africanist Blog, 29 August 2022. [with Tanja Hendriks and Julia Foudraine]

Zambia’s copper mines hard-baked racism into the workplace by labelling whites ‘expats’‘, The Conversation, 22 August 2022.

Review: Class, Work and Whiteness: Race and settler colonialism in Southern Rhodesia, 1919-79, by Nicola Ginsburgh‘, Journal of Southern African Studies 48, 3 (2022): 620-21.

Review: General Labour History of Africa: Workers, Employers and Governments, 20th and 21st Centuries ed. Stefano Bellucci and Andreas Eckert’, International Review of Social History, 67, 1 (2022): 137-140.

A Trove for Historians of Africa: Reflections from the International Studies Group and Research Associates’, History Australia, 18, 4 (2021): 858-863. [with Ana Stevenson, George Bishi, Victor Gwande, Kundai Manamere, Rebecca Swartz and Sarah-Jane Walton]

The Global History of Labor and Race: Foundations and Key Concepts’, JSTOR Daily, 30 April 2021. [with Limin Teh]

Class, Race and Empire: The White Working Class in Historical Perspective’, The Sociological Review, 30 April 2021.

Repurchasing the Family Silver: Zambia nationalises its copper mines again’, ASCL Africanist Blog, 19 February 2021. [with Jennifer Chansa]

Whiteness in Southern Africa’, Africa is a Country, 5 April 2020. [with Danelle van Zyl-Hermann]

White Mineworkers at Zambian Independence’, Africa is a Country, 5 April 2020.

Review: The Long Shadow of the British Empire: The Ongoing Legacies of Race and Class in Zambia by Juliette Bridgette Milner Thornton’, Zambia Social Sciences Journal 4, 1 (2013), 66-68.


OPEN ACCESS

Many of my publication are Open Access so can be read for free on the publisher’s website.

You can click on ‘Open Access PDF’ to get a free version of the text for publications that are not Open Acess.

Advertisement
%d bloggers like this: