Frontmatter -- Contents -- Notes on the Contributors -- INTRODUCTION / Woldring, Klaas -- Acknowledgements -- 1. THE ECONOMY - A NEO-COLONY? -- The Political Economy of Zambia / Meyns, Peter -- 2. THE MINING INDUSTRY - DECLINE! -- Were the Copper Nationalisations Worth-while? / Burdette, Marcia -- 3. THE RURAL SECTOR - HOPE? -- A. Participation or Powerlessness: The Place of Peasants in Zambia's Rural Development / Bwalya, Mulenga -- B. The State and the Peasant Farming Sector: Small Scale Agricultural Production in Economic Development / Evans, David -- C. The Rural Malaise in Zambia: Reflections on the René Dumont Report and the State Farms Project / Woldring, Klaas -- 4. THE PARASTATALS AND INDUSTRY - LOSS -- Public Enterprise and Industrial Development: The Industrial Development Corporation of Zambia (INDECO) / Tangri, Roger -- 5. CLASS IN ZAMBIA - A MARXIST ANALYSIS -- The Process of Class Formation in Contemporary Zambia / Mudenda, Gilbert -- 6. THE URBAN INFORMAL SECTOR - SURVIVAL AT THE FRINGE -- The Sexual Division of Labour in the Urban Informal Sector: A Case Study of Lusaka / Bardouille, Raj -- 7. CORRUPTION AND INEFFICIENCY - PROBLEMS GALORE! -- Survey of Recent Inquiries and their Results / Woldring, Klaas -- 8. THE RÔLE OF THE PRESS - CRITICAL AND IMPORTANT! -- The Rôle of the Press / Kasoma, Francis -- 9. EXTERNAL RELATIONS AND AID - FRIENDS AND FOES! -- A. External Aid Agencies / Roos, Fred -- B. Aspects of Zambia's Foreign Policy in the Context of Southern Africa / Woldring, Klaas -- CONCLUSION / Woldring, Klaas