Tearing the Social Fabric: Neoliberalism, Deindustrialization, and the Crisis of Governance in Zimbabwe From: African Studies Review | Date: December 1, 2004| Author: Anthony, Connie | Copyright African Studies Association Dec 2004. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

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Padric Carmody. Tearing the Social Fabric: Neoliberalism, Deindustrialization, and the Crisis of Governance in Zimbabwe. Portsmouth: Heinemann, 2001. Distributed by Greenwood Publishing Group, Westport, Conn, xx + 180 pp. Tables. Figures. Bibliography. Index. $67.95. Cloth.

The fall of the democratic state in Zimbabwe has received much attention. This book asks us to consider how the structural adjustment policies adopted by Zimbabwe in the early nineties were to blame....