This paper traces the role of local content in Zambia's mining sector in supporting industrialization and economic … diversification. It assesses productive linkages and manufacturing competitiveness during import-substitution industrialization and … manufacture of mining goods. Privatization and liberalization stymied local content capabilities, retarding industrialization and …

This study examines the effects of mining productivity shocks on the formal-informal duality in manufacturing and … informality along both margins across sectors following mining shocks are heterogeneous. We also find that the lack of duality … between informal and formal firms across the development phases of mining is driven by increasing heterogeneity in …

In almost any industry, the day-to-day lived experiences of workers directly shape production processes. Those …-depth study of a deep-level mining workplace, Phakathi brings to the fore the realities of how work processes shape the actions of … mining workplace. In the process, he highlights frontline miners' perspectives of managing, balancing and coping with the …