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Taken For A Ride - Grounding Neoliberalism, Precarious Labour, and Public Transport in an African Metropolis (Hardcover)
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Taken For A Ride - Grounding Neoliberalism, Precarious Labour, and Public Transport in an African Metropolis (Hardcover)
Series: Critical Frontiers of Theory, Research, and Policy in International Development Studies
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How does public transport work in an African city under
neoliberalism? Who owns what in it? Who has the power to influence
its shape and changes in it over time? What does it mean to be a
precarious and informal worker in the private minibuses that
provide public transport in Dar es Salaam? These are the main
questions that inform this in-depth case study of Dar es Salaam's
public transport system over more than forty years. The growth of
cities and informal economies are two central manifestations of
globalization in the developing world. Taken for a Ride addresses
both, drawing on long-term fieldwork in Dar es Salaam (Tanzania)
and charting its public transport system's journey from public to
private provision. This new addition to the Critical Frontiers of
Theory, Research and Practice in International Development Studies
series investigates this shift alongside the increasing
deregulation of the sector and the resulting chaotic modality of
public transport. It reviews state attempts to regain control over
public transport and documents how informal wage relations
prevailed in the sector. The changing political attitude of workers
towards employers and the state is investigated: from an initial
incapacity to respond to exploitation, to the political
organisation and unionisation which won workers concessions on
labour rights. A longitudinal study of workers throws light on
patterns of occupational mobility in the sector, and the political
and economic interests that shaped the introduction of Bus Rapid
Transit in Dar es Salaam, and local resistance to it are analysed.
Taken for a Ride reveals the political economy of public transport,
exposing the limitations of market fundamentalist and post-colonial
scholarship on economic informality, the urban experience in
developing countries, and the failure to locate the agency of the
urban poor within their economic and political structures. It is
both a contribution and a call for the contextualised study of
'actually existing neoliberalism'.
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