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South Africa: Piketty Misses the Mark On Marikana

8 October 2015 By admin

In an excerpt from a plenary lecture he presented to the International Sociological Association World Congress in July 2014, PETER ALEXANDER argues that while Thomas Piketty has produced a seminal tome that greatly enhances our understanding of a critical problem facing humanity, his treatment of Marikana reveals significant limitations. On August 16 2012, the South African police intervened in a labor conflict between workers at the Marikana platinum mine near Johannesburg and the mine’s owners: the stockholders of Lonmin, based in London.

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