Re-locating mineral - dependant communities in the era of globalization, 1979-1999 : a comparative study of the Zambian copperbelt and Timmins, Ontario; project report

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2005

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York University, Toronto, ON, CA

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.

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MINING, COPPER, COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS, MINING POLICY, ZAMBIA, CANADA, INDUSTRIAL INVESTMENT, ECONOMIC IMPLICATIONS, SOCIAL IMPLICATIONS, OWNERSHIP, RESEARCH METHODS, GLOBALIZATION, PUBLIC SECTOR, PRIVATE SECTOR, CAPITALISM, TRANSNATIONAL CORPORATIONS, PRIVATIZATION, GLOBAL

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