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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, shifting labour and life conditions in northern South Africa's agricultural borderlands. Underlying these challenges are the Zimbabwean political and economic crisis of the 2000s and the intensified pressures on commercial agriculture in South Africa following market liberalization and post-apartheid land reform. But, amidst uncertainty, farmers and farm workers strive for stability. The farms on South Africa's margins are centers of gravity, islands of residential labour in a sea of informal arrangements.
Migrant agricultural laborers --- Foreign workers, Zimbabwean --- Farmers --- Borderlands --- Border-lands --- Border regions --- Frontiers --- Boundaries --- Farm operators --- Operators, Farm --- Planters (Persons) --- Agriculturists --- Rural population --- Alien labor, Zimbabwean --- Zimbabwean foreign workers --- Agricultural migrants --- Migrant agricultural workers --- Migrant farm workers --- Migrants --- Agricultural laborers --- Migrant labor --- Social conditions. --- South Africa --- Africa, South --- Race relations --- Social conditions --- E-books
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Border Capitalism, Disrupted presents an insightful ethnography of migrant labor regulation at the Mae Sot Special Border Economic Zone on the Myanmar border in northwest Thailand. By bringing a new deployment of workerist and autonomist theory to bear on his fieldwork, Stephen Campbell highlights the ways in which workers' struggles have catalyzed transformations in labor regulation at the frontiers of capital in the global south. Looking outwards from Mae Sot, Campbell engages extant scholarship on flexibilization and precarious labor, which, typically, is based on the development experiences of the global north. Campbell emphasizes the everyday practices of migrants, the police, employers, NGOs, and private passport brokers to understand the "politics of precarity" and the new forms of worker organization and resistance that are emerging in Asian industrial zones. Focusing, in particular, on the uses and effects of borders as technologies of rule, Campbell argues that geographies of labor regulation can be read as the contested and fragile outcomes of prior and ongoing working-class struggles. Border Capitalism, Disrupted concludes that with the weakened influence of formal unions, understanding the role of these alternative forms of working-class organizations in labor-capital relations becomes critical. With a broad data set gleaned from almost two years of fieldwork, Border Capitalism, Disrupted will appeal directly to those in anthropology, labor studies, political economy, and geography, as well as Southeast Asian studies.
Precarious employment --- Foreign workers, Burmese --- Borderlands --- Capitalism --- Economic anthropology --- Commerce, Primitive --- Economics, Primitive --- Economics --- Ethnology --- Market economy --- Profit --- Capital --- Border-lands --- Border regions --- Frontiers --- Boundaries --- Burmese foreign workers --- Employment, Precarious --- Non-standard employment --- Economic aspects --- Social aspects --- class, labor, migration, Thailand, Myanmar. --- E-books
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Smugglers and Saints of the Sahara describes life on and around the contemporary border between Algeria and Mali, exploring current developments in a broad historical and socioeconomic context. Basing her findings on long-term fieldwork with trading families, truckers, smugglers and scholars, Judith Scheele investigates the history of contemporary patterns of mobility from the late nineteenth century to the present. Through a careful analysis of family ties and local economic records, this book shows how long-standing mobility and interdependence have shaped not only local economies, but also notions of social hierarchy, morality and political legitimacy, creating patterns that endure today and that need to be taken into account in any empirically-grounded study of the region.
Migration. Refugees --- Foreign trade. International trade --- anno 1900-1999 --- Mali --- Algeria --- Borderlands --- Political science --- Government --- General. --- Commerce --- Relations --- Border-lands --- Border regions --- Frontiers --- Boundaries --- Cộng hòa Mali --- Dēmokratia tou Mali --- Mali Gongheguo --- Mali ka Fasojamana --- Malli --- Malli Konghwaguk --- Mari --- Mari Kyōwakoku --- R.M. (République du Mali) --- Republika Mali --- Republiḳat Mali --- République du Mali --- Rėspublika Mali --- RM (République du Mali) --- Μάλι --- Δημοκρατία του Μάλι --- Рэспубліка Малі --- Республика Мали --- Республіка Малі --- Република Мали --- Мали --- Малі --- רפובליקת מאלי --- מאלי --- مالي --- マリ --- マリ共和国 --- 马里共和国 --- 말리 --- 말리 공화국 --- Sudanese Republic --- al-Dzāyīr --- al-Jazāʼir --- Algérie --- Algerien --- Algeriet --- Alg'eryah --- Algieria --- Algierska Republika Ludowo-Demokratyczna --- Alg'iryah --- Alzhir --- Alžir --- Argelia --- Cezayir --- Democratic and Popular Republic of Algeria --- Democratic Republic of Algeria --- Dżumhurija al-Dżazajrija asz-Szaabija ad-Dimukratija --- Gouvernement général de l'Algérie --- Jumhūrīyah al-Jazāʼirīyah al-Dīmuqrāṭīyah wa-al-Shaʻbīyah --- Jumhūrīyah al Jazāʼirīyah ash Shaʻbīyah --- People's Democratic Republic of Algeria --- République algérienne démocratique et populaire --- אלג'יריה --- الجزائر --- الدزاير --- Алжир --- Algeria (Provisional Government, 1958-1962) --- E-books --- Social Sciences --- Political Science
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