UID:
almafu_9960968840202883
Format:
1 online resource (xvi, 222 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
1-78744-246-2
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1-78744-266-7
Content:
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.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 20 Jan 2023).
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Frontcover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- 1 Introduction: Setting the scene -- 2 The 1987 Mineworkers Strike -- 3 Conflict in the Transkei -- 4 Power struggles in Lesotho -- 5 Co-ops capture the imagination -- 6 The NUM Co-op Programme -- 7 Challenges of democratic ownership & -- control -- 8 Rethinking degeneration in co-op theory -- 9 The Mineworkers Development Agency's development centre strategy -- 10 Small enterprise: In the shadow of the core economy -- 11 A new enterprise development paradigm -- 12 Market development - or a new 'anti-politics machine'? -- 13 Breaking into higher-value markets in the craft sector -- 14 Marula: Product innovation & -- value chains -- 15 Implications for enterprise development strategy -- 16 If markets are social constructs, how might we construct them differently? -- Select Bibliography -- Index.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-84701-176-4
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9781787442467
URL:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/9781787442467/type/BOOK
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