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Sep 11, 2018 • 4 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
Third and final Copperbelt panel now beginning in room G33 with Kristien Geenen talking about a wildcat strike at a Chinese-owned mine in Katanga.
#ASAUK18
Geenen: the company was a joint Chinese-Congolese venture that is closely associated with President Kabila. The strike therefore had a strong political component as miners sought to capitalise on the campaigns over the much-delayed presidential elections.
#ASAUK18
Geenen: Sicomines managers selected union delegates at the mine, so the strikers bypassed the union.
#ASAUK18
Geenen: strikers demanded a $300 monthly minimum wage, more holiday, greater employment of Congolese maîtrises in skilled positions currently occupied by Chinese workers and an end to insults from Chinese workers.
#ASAUK18

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Dec 7, 2022
Professional news: my contract at Leiden ends this month so I'm leaving academia. I'm good at my job. I publish a lot (3 books, 21 articles/chapters), got great teaching evaluations and supervised 4 PhDs since finishing my own in 2016. It's not enough though.
I have to accept that I will never get a permanent academic job, and have also realised I no longer want one. Working conditions at universities are deteriorating. At Leiden, I took on the work of two colleagues who had burnouts. Unsurprisingly, I found their jobs stressful!
People often say encouraging things about my work and prospects for employment. The reality of the academic job market is that my profile has been enough to get me only one one job interview this year, despite many applications.
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My review of 'Settlers at the End of Empire' by @drjeansmith has been published in the @ihr_history Reviews in History. Her book is a very welcome contribution to migration history:
reviews.history.ac.uk/review/2469
Post-war migration in Britain usually means immigration to Britain. The important contribution of this book is to show that this occured alongside mass emigration from Britain, and how this changes our understanding of migration and migration policy.
This collective experience of emigration is absent in popular memory. As I note in the review, ‘Migration’ means the arrival of the Empire Windrush at Tilbury in 1948, not the Carnarvon Castle departing Southampton for Cape Town at the same time.
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Sep 25, 2020
Today marks the 50th anniversary of the Mufulira Mine Disaster, #Zambia's worst ever mining disaster. On 25 September 1970, 89 miners on the night shift were entombed when vast quantities of mud and water leaked from a surface tailings dam and inundated the mine.
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Mufulira was the world’s largest underground copper mine, but it took only 15 minutes for the entire eastern section to flood. Survivors recalled a noise like thunder, a shockwave of air through the tunnels, then the lights going out before the wet mud rushed through the tunnels.
Pictures from the aftermath give an indication of the terrible force of the mud rush that surged through the underground workings.
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Sep 21, 2020
This photo I came across from the @TWArchives got me thinking about the global division of labour, specifically who could do what kinds of jobs in different places at the same time. The photo shows dockworkers in Sunderland manually unloading chromite from a ship in 1949. Image
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Chromite was manually extracted and then loaded onto trains to Beira. Here, the work was done by African men and it was absolutely unthinkable for whites to shovel chromite, and regarded as dangerous to racial prestige. This was not appropriate work for white men.
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Sep 10, 2020
Yesterday I spent a happy afternoon in the @ASCLibrary looking through two boxes of material on #Zambia recently donated by Frans Verstraelen. This was a mixture of books, reports, leaflets, and periodicals from the University of Zambia, some of which are now very hard to find.
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Thanks to @blewis2103 I have a copy of a 1972 film on the history of Kansanshi, #Zambia, featuring an interview with with 95 year-old Chief Kapijimpanga (pictured) and footage of pre-industrial smelting techniques as recalled and reconstructed by elderly locals.
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Chief Kapijimpanga worked with the prospecting party that established a mine at Kansanshi in the 1900s and the film includes footage of the remains of that mine in the early 1970s. I think has now been obliterated by the new open pit.
If anyone would like a copy, then let me know and I will share it.
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