Introduction: setting the scene -- The 1987 mineworkers strike -- Conflict in the Transkei -- Power struggles in Lesotho -- Co-ops capture the imagination -- The NUM co-op programme -- Challenges of democratic ownership and control -- Rethinking degeneration in co-op theory -- MDA's Development Centre strategy -- Small enterprise: In the shadow of the core economy -- A new enterprise development paradigm -- Market development -- or a new "anti-politics machine"? -- Breaking into higher value markets in the craft sector -- Marula: product innovation and value chains -- Implications for enterprise development strategy -- If markets are social constructs, how might we construct them differently?
Summary
"Examines more than a decade of enterprise development strategies in marginal economic contexts in South Africa's mining communities and shows how this might impact on development strategies."--Publisher's description
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 210-216) and index
