Globalization, Economic Inclusion and African Workers

Kate Meagher is an Associate Professor at the Department of International Development, London School of Economics. She specializes in African informal economies and real governance, and has published widely on contemporary dilemmas of informality and economic inclusion, including Identity Economics: Social Networks and the Informal Economy in Nigeria. Laura Mann is an Assistant Professor at the Department of International Development, London School of Economics. Her research and publications include work on political economy of development, African higher education and labour issues and critical approaches to new information and communication technologies in Africa.Maxim Bolt is Lecturer in Anthropology and African Studies at the University of Birmingham, and a Research Associate at the University of the Witwatersrand. His first book – Zimbabwe’s Migrants and South Africa’s Border Farms: The Roots of Impermanence – explores wage labour in a place of transience and informal livelihoods.

• Introduction: Global Economic Inclusion and African Workers 1. The Scramble for Africans: Demography, Globalisation and Africa’s Informal Labour Markets 2. ‘Integration’ or ‘Selective Incorporation’? The Modes of Governance in Informal Trading Policy in the Inner City of Johannesburg 3. Remaking Africa’s Informal Economies: Youth, Entrepreneurship and the Promise of Inclusion at the Bottom of the Pyramid 4. The Domestic Turn: Business Process Outsourcing and the Growing Automation of Kenyan Organisations 5. Do Transnational Links Matter after Return? Labour Market Participation among Ghanaian Return Migrants 6. Accidental Neoliberalism and the Performance of Management: Hierarchies in Export Agriculture on the Zimbabwean-South African Border 7. Resilient Labour:Workplace Regimes, Globalisation and Enclave Development in Swaziland