Reading Mozambique’s mega-project developmentalism through the workplace: evidence from Chinese and Brazilian investments

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ABSTRACT Propelled by a commodities boom and expanding South–South investment, mega-projects have reshaped the politics of labour in many African settings. Reflecting on such dynamics, this article critically engages with questions employment, skills development, contestation re-configuring capital–labour encounters ‘Chinese’ ‘Brazilian’ workplace Mozambique. We analyse two mega-projects: Maputo Ring Road, implemented China Road Bridge Corporation, Moatize Coal Project, led Brazilian mining company, Vale SA. Engaging complex realities at project ground level, unpacks how regimes outcomes reflect an intricate, multi-scalar array spatial encounters, sector-specific characteristics, national political economies. For both cases, is associated common promises development prosperity for While take different ideational guises, we show that Chinese workplaces expose, nonetheless, overlapping patterns inequality, contention, hostility, reinforced broader vulnerabilities imbalances global production networks Mozambican economy. By providing ground-level reading forces play workplace, sheds light relationship between emerging realities, geographies contexts shaped mega-projects.

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عنوان ژورنال: African Affairs

سال: 2022

ISSN: ['1468-2621', '0001-9909']

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/afraf/adac019