Gold Digging Careers in Rural East Africa: Small-Scale Miners' Livelihood Choices

World Development

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 379-392

  Bryceson, Deborah Fahy ^a   Jønsson, Jesper Bosse ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

careers; income diversification; labor specialization; livelihoods; small scale mining; Tanzania

Indexed keywords

EMPLOYMENT; GOLD; INCOME DISTRIBUTION; LABOR; RURAL AREA; RURAL ECONOMY; SMALL SCALE MINING;

TANZANIA;

EID: 75749095530     PISSN: 0305750X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2009.09.003     Document Type: Article

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