Trade Union Membership in the Coppermines of Zambia: A Test of Some Hypotheses

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* I wish to acknowledge the support I received from the Foreign Area Fellowship Program and the National Science Foundation (Doctoral dissertation research in political science, grant no. G.S. 1210), which made it possible to collect the data for this study. I wish also to acknowledge the support of the Center for International Studies of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which provided the funds for data analysis and published an earlier version of this paper. 1 Louis Wirth, Urbanism as a Way of Life, American Journal of Sociology 44 (July 1938): 1-25. As examples of contemporary writings, see Immanuel Wallerstein, Ethnicity and National Integration, Cahiers d'etudes africaines 1 (1960): 129-39; and William B. Schwab, Oshogbo-an Urban Community? in Urbanization and Migration in West ed. Hilda Kuper (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1965), pp. 85-109. 2 Thus, Banton states: Some understanding of the emergence and spread of new norms may be gained from the study of new institutions. Voluntary associations are of particular interest in this respect, for the new norms are frequently rendered explicit in the association's constitution or activities, and are taught to novices as the distinguishing characteristic of the organization. This quotation appears in Michael F. Banton, A West African City: A Study of Tribal Life in Freetown (London: Oxford University Press, 1957), p. 5. See also Michael Banton, Adaptation and Immigration in the Social System of Temne Immigrants in Freetown, in Social Change: Colonial Situation, ed. Immanuel Wallerstein (New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1966), pp. 402-19; Kenneth Little, The Organization of Voluntary Associations in West Africa, Civilisations 9 (1959): 283-97; Kenneth Little, West African Urbanization: A Study of Voluntary Associations in Social Change (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1965); Philip Mayer, Townsmen or Tribesmen (Capetown: Oxford University Press, 1961); and Philip Mayer, Some Forms of Religious Organization among Africans in a South African City, in Urbanization in African Social Change: Proceedings of the Inaugural Seminar Held in the Centre of African Studies, University of Edinburgh, ed. Kenneth Little (Edinburgh: Centre of African Studies, 1963), pp. 113-26.