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The growth of cities, and informal economies within them, are two central manifestations of globalization in the developing world. This book contributes to our understanding of both, through a study of public transport in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania's largest city, from 1970 to 2015.
List of contents
- 1: Taken for a ride: rethinking neoliberalism, precarious labour and public transport from an African metropolis
- 2: Public transport in Dar es Salaam: from state monopoly to neoliberalism, 1970-2015
- 3: 'Life is war': capital and informal labour in bus public transport
- 4: The politics of labour 1: the quiescent period (up to 1997)
- 5: The politics of labour 2: struggling for rights at work
- 6: Tracing occupational mobility/immobility among informal transport workers
- 7: The new face of neoliberalism: the Bus Rapid Transport project in Tanzania (2002-2016)
- 8: Conclusion: taken for a ride
About the author
Matteo Rizzo is a political economist who lives and works in London, where he is a senior lecturer across the Departments of Economics and Development Studies at SOAS, University of London, UK. He previously worked at the African Studies Centre, University of Oxford and at the Centre for African Studies, University of Cambridge. His work has been published by leading African studies and development studies journals, including the Journal of Development Studies, Development and Change, the Journal of Agrarian Change, African Affairs, the Journal of Modern African Studies and the Review of African Political Economy, of which he is also a member of the Editorial Working Group.
Summary
The growth of cities, and informal economies within them, are two central manifestations of globalization in the developing world. This book contributes to our understanding of both, through a study of public transport in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania's largest city, from 1970 to 2015.
Additional text
Matteo Rizzo's Taken for a Ride: Grounding Neoliberalism, Precarious Labour, and Public Transport in an African Metropolis is a book on urban transport in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and it makes two important scholarly contributions. The first is an intervention into debates about neoliberalism,...The second, more nuanced contribution of the book is the analysis of the past and present of transport work in the urban informal economy. The story Rizzo tells is a powerful and convincing one, in large part due to research methods that are both longitudinal (he carried out research over an extended period between 1998 and 2014) and up close.
