Trade Unions and Sustainable Democracy in Africa
Trade Unions and Sustainable Democracy in Africa

Author: Gerard Kester

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-05-23

Total Pages: 357

ISBN-13: 0429751893

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First published in 1997, this volume sets out to open a dialogue with the trade union movement and its social partners including civil society, political leaders and the scientific community. The authors, all of whom work closely with APADEP, have drawn on their personal experience and have been guided by a simple, yet flexible, theme: trends in the last few decades in their countries, with the emphasis on transition over the last five years. Part I consists of an overview of sub-Saharan Africa based on selected documentation. Part II is given over to an analysis of the specific situations obtaining in ten African countries in different geographical and language areas. Each case study provides its own democratisation scenario.

Applied Economics and the Critical Realist Critique
Applied Economics and the Critical Realist Critique

Author: Paul Downward

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2005-08-18

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 1134497601

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This intriguing new book examines and analyses the role of critical realism in economics and specifically how this line of thought can be applied to the real world. With contributions from such varying commentators as Sheila Dow, Wendy Olsen and Fred Lee, this new book is unique in its approach and will be of great interest to both economic methodologists and those involved in applied economic studies.

Mortgaging Women's Lives
Mortgaging Women's Lives

Author: Pamela Sparr

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 9781856491020

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Een evaluatie, aan de hand van een reeks case-studies, van de impact van het economisch beleid van het Internationaal Muntfonds en de Wereldbank op vrouwen in de ontwikkelingslanden, met onder meer aandacht voor het gevoerde overheidsbeleid en de impact van de door de internationale instanties opgelegde maatregelen op plattelandsvrouwen.

Onions Are My Husband
Onions Are My Husband

Author: Gracia Clark

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2010-01-15

Total Pages: 509

ISBN-13: 0226107760

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In the most comprehensive analysis to date of the world of open air marketplaces of West Africa, Gracia Clark studies the market women of Kumasi, Ghana, in order to understand the key social forces that generate, maintain, and continually reshape the shifting market dynamics. Probably the largest of its kind in West Africa, the Kumasi Central Market houses women whose positions vary from hawkers of meals and cheap manufactured goods to powerful wholesalers, who control the flow of important staples. Drawing on more than four years of field research, during which she worked alongside several influential market "Queens", Clark explains the economic, political, gender, and ethnic complexities involved in the operation of the marketplace and examines the resourcefulness of the market women in surviving the various hazards they routinely encounter, from coups d'etat to persistent sabotage of their positions from within.