Markets on the margins : mineworkers, job creation & enterprise development

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    • Philip, Kate (Writer on economic development projects)

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Markets on the margins : mineworkers, job creation & enterprise development

Kate Philip

James Currey, 2018

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Markets on the margins : mineworkers, job creation and enterprise development

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 210-216) and index

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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.

Table of Contents

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?

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