Gold out, waste in: the inserts of Ghana in the contemporary international labor division and the economy recommodization
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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2179-0892.geousp.2018.137274Keywords:
Gold, E-waste, Ghana, International labor division, RecommodizationAbstract
Ghana’s socio-spatial formation has a rich variety of mineral resources that are currently exploited and exported by large foreign corporations. At the same time, due to the precariousness of national industries over the last few decades, Ghana has become highly dependent on imported manufactured goods and, more specifically, on second-hand manufactured goods, especially electronics imported from Europe and North America. Approximately 70% of these goods can not be used in their original functions, becoming electronic waste that in turn stimulates the emergence of a series of economic activities in Accra that give rise to the process of recommodization of the economy, a process that is responsible for making more complex the insertions of Ghana in the contemporary international labor division.
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