News Summary

• In Johannesburg’s Jeppe precinct, what looks like disorder is in fact a dense, transnational system of trade, labor, and survival at the heart of the global economy.
• The book takes the reader through a journey of the unexplored corners of globalization, drawing on a rich and sophisticated account of how to rethink and remake a city in a postcolonial and post-apartheid environment.
• The fact that “everything is about money” drives xenophobia and disdain for the poor, making class prejudice transcendental to racial and gender prejudice.