Socio-Economic Insecurity in Emerging Economies

Dr. Khayaat Fakier is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa. Ellen Ehmke is a PhD candidate at the International Centre for Development and Decent Work (ICDD), University of Kassel, Germany. 

1: Introduction: Work, Livelihoods and Insecurity in the 21st Century: A Conceptual Introduction, PART I Urban and Rural Livelihood Strategies 2. Introduction: Urban and Rural Livelihood Strategies 3. Precarious Workers, Different Voices: Johannesburg’s Inner City Workers 4. Labour and Migration Patterns: The Clothing Industry and Bolivian Migrants 5. Public Space and Livelihood Security in the Urban Economy: The Case of Street Vendors in Mumbai 6. Charcoal for Food: Livelihood Diversification in Two Peasant Communities in Mozambique 7. Conservancy work in Mumbai and Johannesburg: Retention at the Periphery 8. Organising the Unorganised: Mumbai’s Home Workers Lead the Way PART 2: State Responses to Insecurity 9. Introduction: State Responses to Insecurity 10. Strategies for Social Protection Provision: A Comparison of Brazil, India and South Africa 11. State Responses to Insecurity: Social Assistance and Care in South Africa 12. Practice and Priorities of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act in India: An Activist’s Perspective 13. Brazil’s Strategy against Poverty: The Bolsa Família and Brasil SEM Miséria PART 3 Alternative Development Paths 14. Introduction: Alternative Development Paths 15. The Solidarity Economy Alternative in South Africa: Theory and Practice 16. The Buen Vivir (good life) in Latin America: An Alternative Developmental Concept Challenging Extractivism in Ecuador 17. The Lula Moment: Constraints in the Current Peripheral Development Model 18. The ‘Green Economy’: A ‘Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing’ or an Alternative Development Path for South Africa? 19. Envisioning Environmental Futures: Conversations around Socio-ecological Struggles and Industrialisation in Mundra, India 20. Conclusions: Building New Spaces: Responses to Insecurity in the Global South,