Globalisation, Economic Inclusion and African Workers: Making the Right Connections

ISBN-13: 9780367075910 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 124 str.

Kate Meagher; Laura Mann; Maxim Bolt

Opis

This volume addresses the question of whether greater inclusion in the global economy offers a solution to rising unemployment and poverty in contemporary Africa. Focusing on the role of global value chains, digital networks, migrant entrepreneurs and corporate engagement with the bottom of the pyramid, the book examines whether global labour linkages increase or reduce problems of vulnerable and unstable working conditions within African countries, and considers how African workers can capture the gains of inclusion in the global economy.

Spis treści

Introduction: Global Economic Inclusion and African Workers 1. The Scramble for Africans: Demography, Globalisation and Africa’s Informal Labour Markets 2. ‘Integration’ or ‘Selective Incorporation’? The Modes of Governance in Informal Trading Policy in the Inner City of Johannesburg 3. Remaking Africa’s Informal Economies: Youth, Entrepreneurship and the Promise of Inclusion at the Bottom of the Pyramid 4. The Domestic Turn: Business Process Outsourcing and the Growing Automation of Kenyan Organisations 5. Do Transnational Links Matter after Return? Labour Market Participation among Ghanaian Return Migrants 6. Accidental Neoliberalism and the Performance of Management: Hierarchies in Export Agriculture on the Zimbabwean-South African Border 7. Resilient Labour:Workplace Regimes, Globalisation and Enclave Development in Swaziland