This article explores the ambivalence of care and its role in sustaining capitalist extraction in Zambia's copper mines. Based on ethnographic research within mines and their encompassing communities, the article documents the caring practices of mineworkers and attempts of trade unionists and managerial staff to counsel and support mineworkers as they navigate exploitative employment conditions. These acts of care are often unacknowledged or trivialised by corporate discourses and top company management. Yet, they are pivotal in maintaining and repairing fragile labour relations and, thereby, production. The article explores the way acts of care support workers but, at the same time, reassert the power of the company and the inevitability of exploitation. Following the deconstruction of paternalist welfare systems in the mining sector, neoliberal investments are buttressed by these caring practices and the wider set of relationships they mobilise within the labour force and the broader community. These acts of care thus subsidise the extraction of Zambia's mineral resources.

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补贴开采：赞比亚铜矿的工作关怀

本文探讨了关怀的矛盾心理及其在维持赞比亚铜矿资本主义开采中的作用。本文基于矿山及其周围社区的人种学研究，记录了矿工的关怀实践，以及工会成员和管理人员在矿工应对剥削性就业条件时为他们提供咨询和支持的尝试。这些关怀行为常常未被企业话语和公司高层管理层所承认或轻视。然而，它们对于维持和修复脆弱的劳动关系乃至生产至关重要。文章探讨了护理人员支持工人的行为方式，但同时重申了公司的力量和剥削的不可避免性。随着采矿业家长式福利制度的解构，新自由主义投资得到了这些关怀实践以及它们在劳动力和更广泛的社区中动员起来的更广泛关系的支撑。因此，这些关怀行动补贴了赞比亚矿产资源的开采。