The Experience of Economic Redistribution: The Growth, Employment and Redistribution Strategy in South Africa

ISBN-13: 9780415980142 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 224 str.

Clarence Tshitereke

Opis

The author provides an analysis of South Africa's political economy in transition, documenting the history of the gold mining industry's involvement in shaping the political landscape of the country.

Recenzje

'This admirable study is the first major analysis of the post-apartheid gold mining industry. Tshitereke skillfully shows how an industry in terminal decline continues to exercise an inordinate influence in South Africa.' - Dr. Jonathan Crush, Director Southern African Research Center, Queen's University at Kingston, Ontario ,Canada

Spis treści

Setting the Scene: An Introduction  1. Theoretical Approaches: Modes of Regulation and Accumulation  2. Chamber of Mines and Labor: The Political Economy of South Africa’s Gold Mining Industry, 1886-1987  3. Evaluating GEAR: Labor and Employment Trends in the Chamber Affiliated Gold of Mines  4. From RDP to GEAR: The Political Economy of South Africa’s Transition  5. GEAR, Gold and Labor: The Politics of Redistribution  Conclusions: South Africa’s Transition in Retrospect

O autorze

Clarence Tshitereke was born in Sibasa, South Africa - 1975. He studied politics at the Universities of Cape Town and Stellenbosch and completed a Ph.D. with Queen's University at Kingston in Canada.