Introduction: Global Economic Inclusion and African Workers
探讨全球联系对非洲工人的变革潜力，质疑非洲工人已无关全球经济的说法，分析全球需求从正式转向非正式劳动安排，并思考为何全球劳动联系加剧了非洲工人的脆弱和不稳定，以及实现包容性增长的条件。
This introductory article explores the transformative potential of global connections for African workers. It challenges recent claims that African workers have become functionally irrelevant to the global economy by examining the shift of global demand for African workers from formal to increasingly informalised labour arrangements, mediated by social enterprises, labour brokers and graduate entrepreneurs. Focusing on global employment connections initiated from above and from below, we consider why global labour linkages have tended to increase rather than reduce problems of vulnerable and unstable working conditions within African countries, and consider the economic and political conditions needed for African workers to capture the gains of inclusion in the global economy.