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Towards a life of poverty and uncertainty? The livelihood strategies of Gécamines workers after retrenchment in the DRC

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In 2003, with the support of the World Bank, the Congolese state-owned enterprise Gécamines implemented a voluntary departure programme for 10,000 employees with more than 25 years of service. These employees were asked to regard their severance pay as a capital to be invested in new activities. Based on ethnographic research, this article explores how ex-Gécamines workers made a living in the phase of their ‘reintegration’. In doing so, it develops a sociological approach to popular economic practices that attempts to move beyond the phenomenology of uncertainty recently advocated by several Africanist scholars.

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  • Benjamin Rubbers, 2017. "Towards a life of poverty and uncertainty? The livelihood strategies of Gécamines workers after retrenchment in the DRC," Review of African Political Economy, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 44(152), pages 189-203, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:revape:v:44:y:2017:i:152:p:189-203
    DOI: 10.1080/03056244.2016.1273827
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