Haushalt, Netzwerke und Markt. Frauenarbeit für Sicherheit und Gemeinschaft in den Townships von Harare

Abstract

The article presents findings of a research in women´s work in Harare, Zimbabwe, which can contribute to a broadening of the concept of work, especially in a gender perspective. Women in Harare work together in self-organised women´s spaces: in kin based alliances, in their neighbourhood, in savings clubs and in forms of cooperation in the market production, which provide economic resources as well as social security in community. The embeddedness of women´s economic action in social relations and networks is the central basis of their economic activities. The articulation of subsistence and market activities is a typical feature of women´s economy.