Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface: The Human Economy Project vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Chapter 1 After the Big Clean-Up: Street Vendors, the Informal Economy and Employment Policy in Zimbabwe 19
6. Chapter 2 Immoral Accumulation and the Human Economy of Death in Venda 41
7. Chapter 3 ‘Letting Money Work for Us’ Self-Organization and Financialization from Below in an All-Male Savings Club in Soweto 61
8. Chapter 4 Market, Race and Nation History of the White Working Class in Pretoria 82
9. Chapter 5 Negotiating Inequality The Contemporary Black Middle Classes in Salvador, Brazil 106
10. Chapter 6 Live Music in the Age of Digital Reproduction: Cape Verde 129
11. Chapter 7 Congo-Gauteng: Congolese Migrants in South Africa 151
12. Chapter 8 Neither Nationals nor Cosmopolitans: The Political Economy of Belonging for Mozambican Indians 173
13. Chapter 9 Marwari Traders between Hindu Neoliberalism and Democratic Socialism in Nepal 190
14. References 207
15. Contributors 225
16. Index 227