Fighting the Commodification of the Extractive Industries: The Labour and Environmental Movements

Balihar Sanghera () and Elmira Satybaldieva ()
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Balihar Sanghera: University of Kent
Elmira Satybaldieva: University of Kent

Chapter Chapter 9 in Rentier Capitalism and Its Discontents, 2021, pp 223-254 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This chapter will discuss how labour and environmental movements were a response to exploitative working conditions and destructive ecological practices in the natural resource sector in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. Rent extraction in the sector was accompanied by intense labour exploitation and insecurity, and significant negative externalities for local communities. While the social struggles had different dynamics in the two countries, they had a similar outcome: the triumph of transnational capital over labour and local communities. In Kazakhstan, the oil industry faced resistance from local workers, whose politicisation was violently squashed by the oiloil complex. In Kyrgyzstan, local communities rather than mining workers resisted the goldgold mining industry, galvanised by environmental concerns and resource control.

Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-76303-9_9

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