Originally published in 1933 at the time of its publication Modern Industry and the African represented a progressive essentially liberal approach to the development of the Copperbelt of Northern Rhodesia and the response thereto of the Christian Church. It expressed the authors' very real fears that urbanization would irreparably damage the foundations of indigenous life and demonstrated their implicit faith in the virtues of a past 'golden age' of rural stability. In many respects the study was a landmark beginning a new trend of investigation into 'sociological' aspects of African administration. |Modern Industry and the African An Enquiry into the Effect of the Copper Mines of Central Africa upon Native Society and the Work of the Chr
