Books

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 [Open Access introduction]

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

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

Journal articles

‘‘Fiery Collieries’ and Explosive Situations: Towards a History of the 1972 Hwange Colliery Disaster‘, Moving the Social 76, 1 (2025): 73-95. With Clement Masakure.

‘The Place of Regions in Transnational Connections: Cumberland Miners in Northern England and the Witwatersrand, 1880s-1920s‘, Historia 70, 1 (2025): 2-14.

‘Sixty Years Since Zambia’s Independence: Revisiting Scholarship on the Struggle Against Colonialism‘, South African Historical Journal (2025): 1-5. With Chibamba Jennifer Chansa.

‘The Colonial African: Godwin Mbikusita-Lewanika and his struggle for and against Zambian nationalism‘, The Journal of African History (2024): 1-27. With Sishuwa Sishuwa.

‘Archive History in Zambia as a History of Loss’, Social Dynamics 50, 1 (2024): 87-91. With Miyanda Simabwachi.

‘The Life and Legacies of Kenneth Kaunda in Southern Africa‘, Zambia Social Science Journal 9, 1 (2023): 1-19. With Marja Hinfelaar and Mary Mbewe.

‘‘Daisyfield in the crucible’: Afrikaners, education and poor whites in Southern Rhodesia, 1911–1948’, Settler Colonial Studies, 13, 4 (2023): 507-521. With George Bishi. [Open Access PDF]

‘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]

‘This Year in History: The 1922 Rand Revolt‘, Southern Africa Historical Journal, 74, 2 (2022): 526-528. With Danelle van Zyl-Hermann.

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

‘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): 627-644. 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.

‘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.

‘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.

‘‘Aliens’ on the Copperbelt: Zambianization, nationalism and non-Zambian Africans in the mining industry’, Journal of Southern African Studies, 45, 5 (2019): 859-875. [Open Access PDF]

‘Race and Class in the Postwar World: The Southern African Labour Congress‘, International Labor and Working-Class History, 94 (2018): 133-155. [Open Access PDF]

‘Trouble in paradise: The 1958 white mineworkers’ strike on the Zambian Copperbelt’, Extractive Industries and Society, 4, 4 (2017): 707-716. [Open Access PDF]

‘“There are worse places than Dalmuir!” Glaswegian riveters on the Clyde and the Copperbelt‘, Labour History Review, 80, 3 (2015): 273–292. (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): 225-255.

Book chapters

‘Mining History’, in Madeleine Dungy, Audrey Gerrad and Espen Storli (eds.), Handbook on the Economic History of Natural Resources (forthcoming). [Open Access PDF]

‘Labour History and the Economics of Natural Resources’, in Madeleine Dungy, Audrey Gerrad and Espen Storli (eds.), Handbook on the Economic History of Natural Resources (forthcoming). [Open Access PDF]

‘Labour and Capital in South Africa, ca. 1600-1900’ in Stefano Bellucci (ed.), The General Labour History of Africa: Servants, masters, rulers, 17th-19th centuries (forthcoming).

‘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), 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), 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), 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), 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), 1-21. With Roger Jeffrey.

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.

Book reviews

The Eyes of the World: Mining in the Digital Age in the Eastern DR Congo, by James H. Smith, Africa, 94, 3 (2024): 477-478.

History Beyond Apartheid: New Approaches in South African Historiography, edited by Thula Simpson, The Journal of African History (2024).

Women and the Miners’ Strike, 1984–1985, by Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite and Natalie Thomlinson, Urban History (2024).

Labour Struggles in Southern Africa, 1919–1949: New Perspectives on the Industrial and Commercial Workers’ Union, edited by David Johnson, Noor Nieftagodien and Lucien van der Walt, Canadian Journal of African Studies, 58, 3 (2024): 705-707.

Workers of the Empire, Unite: Radical and Popular Challenges to British Imperialism, 1910s–1960s, edited by Yann Béliard and Neville Kirk, Twentieth Century British History, 34, 3 (2023): 602-604.

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

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.

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).

War and Society in Colonial Zambia, 1939–1953, by Alfred Tembo, African Studies Review, 665, 4 (2022): 11-13.

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.

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

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.