During the Zimbabwean crisis, millions crossed through the apartheid-era border fence, searching for ways to make ends meet. Maxim Bolt explores the lives of Zimbabwean migrant labourers, of settled black farm workers and their dependants, and of white farmers and managers, as they intersect on the border between Zimbabwe and South Africa. Focusing on one farm, this book investigates the role of a hub of wage labour in a place of crisis. A close ethnographic study, it addresses the complex...

What are the fundamental issues, processes, agency and dynamics that shape the political economy of life in modern Africa? In this book, the contributors - experts in anthropology, history, political science, economics, conflict and peace studies, philosophy and language - examine the opportunities and constraints placed on living, livelihoods and sustainable life on the continent. Reflecting on why and how the political economy of life approach is essential for understanding the social pr...

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This book addresses the question of whether greater inclusion in the global economy offers a solution to rising unemployment and poverty in contemporary Africa. The authors trace the connection between global demographic change and new mechanisms of economic inclusion via global value chains, digital networks, labour migration, and corporate engagement with the bottom of the pyramid, challenging the claim that African workers have become functionally irrelevant to the global economy. They ...

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Leóék családjában sokat vitatkoztak. De csak ritkán személyes okokból, többnyire inkább politikáról, társadalomról, az ügyről. A zsidó Gerhard nagypapa a francia ellenállás harcosa, kém és újságíró, a hatalom vonalas képviselője. Kedvenc leánygyermeke, Anne hozzámegy a művész Wolfhoz, aki zöldre festett hajjal mászkál, és bűnbandának titulálja az NDK államot. Anne, aki tizenhét évesen lép be a pártba, úgy próbálja szeretni rebellis férjét, hogy azért ne árulja el sztálinista apját sem. A g...