People, Money and Power in the Economic Crisis : : Perspectives from the Global South / / ed. by Keith Hart, John Sharp.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• MitwirkendeR: Dias, Juliana Braz,; Gordon, Doreen,; Hart, Keith,; Inaka, Saint José,; Krige, Detlev,; McNeill, Fraser,; Mpofu, Busani,; Shakya, Mallika,; Sharp, John,; Sumich, Jason,; Trapido, Joseph,
• HerausgeberIn: Hart, Keith,; Sharp, John,
• Place / Publishing House: New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2014]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Series: The Human Economy ; 1
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (246 p.)

The Cold War was fought between “state socialism” and “the free market.” That fluctuating relationship between public power and private money continues today, unfolding in new and unforeseen ways during the economic crisis. Nine case studies -- from Southern Africa, South Asia, Brazil, and Atlantic Africa – examine economic life from the perspective of ordinary people in places that are normally marginal to global discourse, covering a range of class positions from the bottom to the top of society. The authors of these case studies examine people’s concrete economic activities and aspirations. By looking at how people insert themselves into the actual, unequal economy, they seek to reflect human unity and diversity more fully than the narrow vision of conventional economics.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface: The Human Economy Project -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 After the Big Clean-Up: Street Vendors, the Informal Economy and Employment Policy in Zimbabwe -- Chapter 2 Immoral Accumulation and the Human Economy of Death in Venda -- Chapter 3 ‘Letting Money Work for Us’ Self-Organization and Financialization from Below in an All-Male Savings Club in Soweto -- Chapter 4 Market, Race and Nation History of the White Working Class in Pretoria -- Chapter 5 Negotiating Inequality The Contemporary Black Middle Classes in Salvador, Brazil -- Chapter 6 Live Music in the Age of Digital Reproduction: Cape Verde -- Chapter 7 Congo-Gauteng: Congolese Migrants in South Africa -- Chapter 8 Neither Nationals nor Cosmopolitans: The Political Economy of Belonging for Mozambican Indians -- Chapter 9 Marwari Traders between Hindu Neoliberalism and Democratic Socialism in Nepal -- References -- Contributors -- Index