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Markets on the Margins : Mineworkers, Job Creation and Enterprise Development by Kate Philip, (Writer on economic development projects); ProQuest (Firm) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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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.In 1987, workers in South Africa's National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) staged a historic national strike, and 40,000 mineworkers lost their jobs. To assist them, the NUM set up a job creation programme, starting with worker co-operatives before shifting to wider enterprise development strategies. Against the backdrop of South Africa's transition from apartheid to democracy, this programme provided support in communities hard hit by escalating job losses onthe mines - including in neighbouring countries. In this book, Kate Philip, who ran NUM's job creation programme for over a decade, charts the often-difficult lessons learned from grappling with the limits and opportunities thatsuch market participation offer to reduce poverty and improve livelihoods. She explores whether and how it might be possible to make markets work better for the poor - and what the notion that markets are social constructs might mean for constructing them differently. Kate Philip is a Senior Economic Development Advisor

Who reads Markets on the Margins : Mineworkers, Job Creation and Enterprise Development?

Author

Kate Philip, (Writer on economic development projects); ProQuest (Firm)

Publisher

Boydell & Brewer, Limited

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9781787442467

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Business, History, Political Science