Markets on the margins : mineworkers, job creation & enterprise development /

"Examines more than a decade of enterprise development strategies in marginal economic contexts in South Africa's mining communities and shows how this might impact on development strategies."--Publisher's description

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Philip, Kate (Writer on economic development projects) (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Woodbridge, Suffolk : James Currey, 2018.
Subjects:
Economic development projects > South Africa.
Mineral industries > South Africa > Employees.
Projets de développement économique > Afrique du Sud.
Economic development projects
Economic history
Mineral industries > Employees
Bergbauindustrie
Arbeitslosigkeit
Beschäftigung
South Africa > Economic conditions.
Afrique du Sud > Conditions économiques.
South Africa
Südafrika
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: setting the scene
  • The 1987 mineworkers strike
  • Conflict in the Transkei
  • Power struggles in Lesotho
  • Co-ops capture the imagination
  • The NUM co-op programme
  • Challenges of democratic ownership and control
  • Rethinking degeneration in co-op theory
  • MDA's Development Centre strategy
  • Small enterprise: In the shadow of the core economy
  • A new enterprise development paradigm
  • Market development
  • or a new "anti-politics machine"?
  • Breaking into higher value markets in the craft sector
  • Marula: product innovation and value chains
  • Implications for enterprise development strategy
  • If markets are social constructs, how might we construct them differently?

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