NUMSA - Gender and Globalisation group discussion
Item
- Title
- NUMSA - Gender and Globalisation group discussion
- Creator
- NUMSA
- Date
- 1994
- Description
- In the past, the government in many countries provided social welfare benefits to people. These benefits included things like public health care and free education. This is now changing in many countries. Governments today provide fewer services and benefits to people. Instead they hand this job over the private sector. This means that people have to start paying before they get a service. If families can't afford to pay private companies for these services, then someone in the family has to fill the gap. Generally it is women who have to: care for the sick when it is too expensive to take them to hospital, collect firewood because electricity is too expensive, walk miles to collect water from the river because piped water is too expensive. Many governments have been forced to change the role they play in the economy by the structural adjustment programmes (SAPs) that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) imposes on them as one of the conditions for lending them money
- Format
- Language
- English
- Type
- text
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/117816
- Archive
- Cory Library for Humanitites Research
- Provenance
- The item is held at the Cory Library for Humanities Research, Rhodes University, on behalf of the Labour Research Service
- Extent
- 3 pages
- Rights
- National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA)
- Rights Holder
- National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA)
- Use/re-use
- The materials are made available explicitly for research and educational purposes. Any use of these materials must be cleared with the Labour Research Service.
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