ZAMBEZIAThe Journal of theUniversity of ZimbabweVolume 18, No. i, 1991ZAMBEZIAThe Journal of the University of ZimbabweGuest Editor: Professor Angela P. Cheater ISSN 0379-0622CONTENTS Volume 18, No. i, 1991Introduction: Industrial organization andthe law in the first decade of Zimbabwe'sindependence Angela P. Cheater 1Industrial democracy in Zimbabwe? G. J. Maphosa 15Labour relations in a Zimbaweanparastatal enterprise M. A. Shadur 25An evaluation of the workers' real participation indecision-making at enterprise level ..Dorothy Mutizwa-Mangiza 35Labour relations in a Zimbabwean mining enterpriseestablished after Independence Rudo B Gaidzanwa 49'We are taken as shovels, used and put aside . . .':Anthropological perspectives on the organizationof work and workers in Zimbabwean industryin the first decade of Independence Angela P. Cheater 69Bibliography 85© University of Zimbabwe. 1992.Published by University of Zimbabwe Publications,P.O. Box MP 45. Mount Pleasant. Harare, Zimbabwe.Typeset by University of Zimbabwe Publications.Printed through Print Brokers (Pvt) Ltd., Harare.ZAMBEZIAThe publication of Zambezia, the bi-annual journal of the University ofZimbabwe, has been made possible by the generous support of thePublications Committee of the University. The main focus of the journal,as its name implies, is South Central Africa; but inaugural lectures andspecial articles of a more general interest are also published. Monographsupplements to Zambezia, of which there may be up to ten in a year,cover the main disciplines of the University (Agriculture, Commerce,Education, Engineering, the Humanities, Law, Medicine, Science, SocialStudies, Veterinary Science), and do not necessarily have the sameregional focus as Zambezia itself.ORDERS A complete catalogue of these publications may be obtainedfree of charge on application to the Publications Officer, University ofZimbabwe, P.O. Box MP 45, Mount Pleasant, Harare, Zimbabwe.Standing orders for the Journal and/or supplements, under which aninvoice is sent prior to dispatch of the order, are welcomed.Notes on contributorsAngela Cheater used to hold a personal chair in Social Anthropology at theUniversity of Zimbabwe, from which she resigned in protest in 1991 againststate legislation affecting the university.Rudo Gaidzanwa is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Zimbabwe,and is currently registered for her doctorate at the Agricultural University,Wageningen, the Netherlands.Genius Maphosa obtained his B.Sc. Sociology (Honours) and Master ofPhilosophy degrees from the Department of Sociology, University of Zimbabwe,and has held personnel positions in a number of Zimbabwean firms. He iscurrently Manager, Manpower Resources with Ziscosteel, at Redcliff, but isspending a sabbatical year in Maastricht, the Netherlands, in 1991-2.Dorothy Mutizwa-Mangiza, B.Sc. Soc. (Hons.), M.Sc. Soc. is Lecturer in So-ciology, University of Zimbabwe, but is currently on three years' unpaid leaveundertaking post-graduate research.Mark Shadur completed his Ph.D. at the Australian National University,Canberra, on industrial relations in post-Independence Zimbabwe, and is nowlecturing at the Graduate School of Management, University of Queensland, inBrisbane, Australia.IAcknowledgementsThearticlescollectedhereare the fruits of a small workshop held in July 1991 todiscuss the findings of a number of sociologists and anthropologists who hadundertaken research in the field of industrial sociology in Zimbabwe after itsIndependence in 1980. The workshop and this publication were made possibleby a generous donation from SAREC, to which organization and its formerdirector in Zimbabwe, Per Arne Stroberg, we are most grateful.The authors would like to thank the workers and managers at all the variousenterprises studied for their participation in discussions and for the informationwhich they willingly imparted. For reasons of confidentiality, they cannot beacknowledged individually, but we thank them sincerely.