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

by Kate Philip

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1847011764
• ISBN13: 9781847011763
• Release Date: April 2018
• Publisher: James Currey
• Length: 238 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.3"