Extracting Profit
Subtitle: Imperialism, Neoliberalism and the New Scramble for Africa
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Published: Mar 06, 2018
Language: eng
Format: paperback
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9781608468515
Description: A historical explanation of poverty and inequality in African societies today and the social impact of resource-driven growth, Extracting profit explains why Africa has recently undergone an economic boom alongside widespread militarization. This exploitation has not gone unchallenged, however. The book recounts various narratives of grassroots organizing and protest, from platinum workers' struggles in South Africa and Nigerian labor organizing to pro-democracy upheavals in Burkina Faso. It points to the potential for resistance to global capital and for fundamental change, in Africa and beyond.
Notes: Source title: Extracting Profit: Imperialism, Neoliberalism and the New Scramble for Africa