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Informationen zum Autor Deborah Fahy Bryceson is Reader in Urban Studies! Department of Geographical and Earth Sciences! University of Glasgow! UK and a Principal of The Policy Practice Klappentext How Africa Works probes occupational change, identity, and social morality, challenging the view that development is secured through a market or a state-led path. It reveals insights into the interaction between states, markets, communities and households. Important reading for students, academics and policy makers working on Africa. An important contribution to African studies, one which should be read by others interested in changing occupations, identities and moralities everywhere. Inhaltsverzeichnis Section I: Introduction; 1. Africa at work: transforming occupational identity and morality; Deborah Fahy Bryceson; Section II: New Occupational Mobility and Forms of Exchange in Globalizing Economies; 2. From farmers to traders: shifting identities in rural Igbo society! Nigeria; Barth Chukwuezi and Dmitri van den Bersselaar; 3. Does trust travel? Horticultural trade in Kenya; Tjalling Dijkstra; 4. Calculated chaos or cooperation? Informal financial markets in Kinshasa; Mindanda Mohogu; 5. Linking irregular economies: remaking trans-urban commercial networks through new forms of social collaboration; Abdou Maliq Simone; 6. Social capital or social exclusion? Social networks and informal manufacturing in Nigeria; Kate Meagher; Section III: Changing Work Patterns and Social Dynamics in Households! Communities and Nation-States; 7. Body and soul: economic space public morality and social integration of youth in Cameroon; Nantang Jua; 8. Between family and market: urban informal workers' networks and identities in Bissau! Guinea-Bissau; Ilda Lindell; 9. Sweet and sour: women working for wages on Tanzania's sugar estates; Marjorie Mbilinyi; Section IV: Occupational Change and Public Policy; 10. Shifting out of gear: households! livelihoods and public policy on the south African wild coast; Leslie Bank; 11. Fair or foul play: taxation of women entrepreneurs in Cameroon; Margaret Niger-Thomas; 12. Occupational change! structural adjustment and trade union identity in Africa: the case of Cameroonian plantation workers; Piet Konings; 13. With or against the odds? Professionalization of the labour force in Tanzania; Pekka Seppalla; Section V: Conclusion; 14. Between moral economy and civil society: Durkheim revisited; Deborah Fahy Bryceson ...
