Abstract:
The choice of geographically bounded communities with geopolitically varied economies was useful in assessing the existence of common features of a ‘global’ economic order as experienced by citizens of diverse mining communities in the global North and global South. The study focused on the extent of convergence in national and sub-national natural resource policy and related policy regimes, common features in production processes and related labour processes, similarities in socio-economic conditions between the two locations, concentration of ownership on a global scale, and the implications of these with regard to the emergence of a global economic order.
