Based on ethnographic research between 2016 and 2018, this article examines the role of Congolese HR managers working for the transnational companies that have developed new mining projects in DR Congo’s copperbelt over the past two decades. Drawing inspiration from the anthropological literature on brokerage, the analysis proposes to study this category of middle managers as company brokers, who derive power from their ability to control access to jobs in foreign companies and who take on an active role in the organizational changes that new investors put in place. In developing this line of analysis, the article’s aim is to understand how mining capitalism is mediated from within foreign companies. In this view, mining projects are not only negotiated by brokers in the local political arena, they are themselves co-produced by the local workers they employ.

根据2016年至2018年之间的人种学研究，本文考察了刚果人事经理在过去20年中为刚果民主共和国铜矿带开发了新采矿项目的跨国公司工作的作用。该分析从人类学文献的经纪学中汲取灵感，建议研究这类作为公司经纪人的中层管理者，他们从控制外国公司工作机会的能力中获得力量，并在新的组织变革中发挥积极作用投资者到位。在发展这种分析方法时，本文的目的是了解如何从外国公司内部调解采矿资本主义。根据这种观点，采矿项目不仅由当地政治领域的经纪人进行谈判，