Abstract
In 1945, immediately following the conclusion of the Second World War, a major strike by African employees took place on the Rhodesia Railways. The Railways served both Southern and Northern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe and Zambia), and the system was the region's transportation backbone and largest single employer. This is the second part of a two-part article seeking to provide a far more comprehensive account of the strike than has heretofore appeared. Part I was a detailed narrative account of the strike's unfolding. Part II seeks to illuminate the strike's cause, rooted in the railway workers' experience, and to place the event in its historical context. Though contemporary observers may have overstated the strike's transformative power, it deserves its place as one of the region's most dramatic episodes of resistance.
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