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This book addresses the question of whether greater inclusion in
the global economy offers a solution to rising unemployment and
poverty in contemporary Africa. The authors trace the connection
between global demographic change and new mechanisms of economic
inclusion via global value chains, digital networks, labour
migration, and corporate engagement with the bottom of the pyramid,
challenging the claim that African workers have become functionally
irrelevant to the global economy. They expose the shift of global
demand for African workers from formal to increasingly informalised
labour arrangements, mediated by social enterprises, labour
brokers, graduate entrepreneurs and grassroots associations.
Focusing on global employment connections initiated from above and
from below, the authors examine whether global labour linkages
increase or reduce problems of vulnerable and unstable working
conditions within African countries, and considers the economic and
political conditions needed for African workers to capture the
gains of inclusion in the global economy. This book was previously
published as a special issue of the Journal of Development Studies.
This book addresses the question of whether greater inclusion in
the global economy offers a solution to rising unemployment and
poverty in contemporary Africa. The authors trace the connection
between global demographic change and new mechanisms of economic
inclusion via global value chains, digital networks, labour
migration, and corporate engagement with the bottom of the pyramid,
challenging the claim that African workers have become functionally
irrelevant to the global economy. They expose the shift of global
demand for African workers from formal to increasingly informalised
labour arrangements, mediated by social enterprises, labour
brokers, graduate entrepreneurs and grassroots associations.
Focusing on global employment connections initiated from above and
from below, the authors examine whether global labour linkages
increase or reduce problems of vulnerable and unstable working
conditions within African countries, and considers the economic and
political conditions needed for African workers to capture the
gains of inclusion in the global economy. This book was previously
published as a special issue of the Journal of Development Studies.
During the Zimbabwean crisis, millions crossed through the
apartheid-era border fence, searching for ways to make ends meet.
Maxim Bolt explores the lives of Zimbabwean migrant labourers, of
settled black farm workers and their dependants, and of white
farmers and managers, as they intersect on the border between
Zimbabwe and South Africa. Focusing on one farm, this book
investigates the role of a hub of wage labour in a place of crisis.
A close ethnographic study, it addresses the complex, shifting
labour and life conditions in northern South Africa's agricultural
borderlands. Underlying these challenges are the Zimbabwean
political and economic crisis of the 2000s and the intensified
pressures on commercial agriculture in South Africa following
market liberalization and post-apartheid land reform. But, amidst
uncertainty, farmers and farm workers strive for stability. The
farms on South Africa's margins are centers of gravity, islands of
residential labour in a sea of informal arrangements.
During the Zimbabwean crisis, millions crossed through the
apartheid-era border fence, searching for ways to make ends meet.
Maxim Bolt explores the lives of Zimbabwean migrant labourers, of
settled black farm workers and their dependants, and of white
farmers and managers, as they intersect on the border between
Zimbabwe and South Africa. Focusing on one farm, this book
investigates the role of a hub of wage labour in a place of crisis.
A close ethnographic study, it addresses the complex, shifting
labour and life conditions in northern South Africa's agricultural
borderlands. Underlying these challenges are the Zimbabwean
political and economic crisis of the 2000s and the intensified
pressures on commercial agriculture in South Africa following
market liberalization and post-apartheid land reform. But, amidst
uncertainty, farmers and farm workers strive for stability. The
farms on South Africa's margins are centers of gravity, islands of
residential labour in a sea of informal arrangements.
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