Buch, Englisch, 238 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 544 g
Mineworkers, Job Creation and Enterprise Development
Buch, Englisch, 238 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 544 g
ISBN: 978-1-84701-176-3
Verlag: Boydell & Brewer
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 in the Government Technical Advisory Centre (GTAC) of South Africa's National Treasury. Through the International Labour Organisation, she has also been supporting the government of Greece in the design and development of a public employment programme.
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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?
