How Africa Works

Occupational Change, Identity and Morality

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ID19915968
EditorsDeborah Bryceson
Year2010
Publication date2010-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueHow Africa Works (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherPractical Action Publishing (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.3362/9781780440248
OpenAlexW630954811
Open LibraryOL36297505M
ISBN9781780440248
LanguageEN
Citations received11

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

African history and culture studies · Computer Science · Labor Movements and Unions

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