Taken For A Ride

Taken For A Ride

Grounding Neoliberalism, Precarious Labour, and Public Transport in an African Metropolis

Rizzo, Matteo (Senior Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Departments of Development Studies and Economics, SOAS, University of London)

Oxford University Press

06/2017

240

Dura

Inglês

9780198794240

15 a 20 dias

The growth of cities, and informal economies within them, are two central manifestations of globalization in the developing world. This book contributes to our understanding of both, through a study of public transport in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania's largest city, from 1970 to 2015.
1: Taken for a ride: rethinking neoliberalism, precarious labour and public transport from an African metropolis 2: Public transport in Dar es Salaam: from state monopoly to neoliberalism, 1970-2015 3: 'Life is war': capital and informal labour in bus public transport 4: The politics of labour 1: the quiescent period (up to 1997) 5: The politics of labour 2: struggling for rights at work 6: Tracing occupational mobility/immobility among informal transport workers 7: The new face of neoliberalism: the Bus Rapid Transport project in Tanzania (2002-2016) 8: Conclusion: taken for a ride