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Author:

Wengraf, Lee, author.

Title:

Extracting profit : imperialism, neoliberalism and the new scramble for Africa / Lee Wengraf.

Publisher:

Haymarket Books,

Copyright Date:

2018

Description:

viii, 339 pages ; 23 cm

Subject:

Africa--Economic conditions--21st century.
Africa--Foreign economic relations.
Economic development--Africa.
Neoliberalism--Africa.
Marxian economics--Africa.
Anti-imperialist movements--Africa.
Labor movement--Africa.
Mineral industries--Africa.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-323) and index.

Contents:

Introduction and overview -- Legacies of colonialism -- Neoliberalism : crisis, debt, and structural adjustment -- "Rising Africa" -- The new scramble for Africa -- Resource curse or resource wars? -- Militarism and the rise of AFRICOM -- Class struggle and permanent revolution.

Summary:

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.

ISBN:

1608468518
9781608468515

OCLC:

(OCoLC)974677452

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UQAX771 -- Des Moines Area Community College Library - Ankeny (Ankeny)