Markets on the Margins: Mineworkers, Job Creation, & Enterprise Development.

• Author: Nti, Kwaku

Philip, Kate. Markets on the Margins: Mineworkers, Job Creation, & Enterprise Development. Woodbridge, United Kingdom: James Curry, 2018.

Kate Philip, aptly described as an insider, does an erudite analysis of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) of South Africa's pragmatic program of action in entrepreneurship, skill enhancement, and capacity building meant to mitigate the social cost of the punitive job losses (40,000), as well as the eventual retrenchment (300,000) that impacted many more in communities (particularly rural Transkei) during the critical Apartheid and postapart-heid periods. To the extent that trade unions are traditionally not inclined towards development programs, NUM played a unique cutting-edge role with its heavy investment in this development agenda as a contribution to "the concept of a 'social plan' for the mining industry... (in partnership with) the private...