Enterprising women in urban Zimbabwe : gender, microbusiness, and globalization

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Enterprising women in urban Zimbabwe : gender, microbusiness, and globalization

Mary Johnson Osirim

Woodrow Wilson Center Press , Indiana University Press, c2009

  • : hard

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-238) and index

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内容説明

Mary Johnson Osirim investigates the business and personal experiences of women entrepreneurs in Harare and Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, to understand their successes, challenges, and contributions to development. These businesswomen work in the microenterprise sector-which is defined as businesses that employ five workers or fewer-with many working as market traders, crocheters, seamstresses, and hairdressers. The women who took part in Osirim's research during the 1990s pursued their businesses, reinvested profits, engaged in innovation, and provided employment, and through their work supported households and extended family and social networks. Osirim finds that, despite major problems, the Zimbabwean businesswomen maintained their enterprises and their households and managed to contribute in significant ways to their community and national development in the face of an economic structural adjustment program. Osirim also explores the impact of state and non-governmental organizations on small business operations. Enterprising Women in Urban Zimbabwe offers a comprehensive study of women's role as entrepreneurs in the microeconomic sector that shows them as agents during challenging political and economic times.

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This is a tentative table of contents. 1. Introduction 2. Shaping the Discourse on Women, Development and the Microenterprise Sector: The Feminist Political Economy Paradigm and the Modern History of Zimbabwe 3. Market Traders: Persisting against Difficult Odds 4. Crocheters and Knitters: Creativity and Innovation in Production 5. Hairdressers and Seamstresses: Higher Status in the Microenterprise Sector? 6. Entrepreneurship, the State, and the Development of Civil Society 7. Conclusion

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