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Men at work
There’s a hell of a lot of building going on in Honiara right now. Preparations for the 2012 Pacific Arts Festival has meant an unprecedented amount of public works…up to and including footpaths!! This building however is one of the many Chinese owned shops that will most likely house yet more of the small general store operations so common here.
Such developments provide an opportunity for unskilled labor to enter the construction industry but they do nothing for local ownership of a means of capital generation. It is precisely this activity that contributed to the 2003 tensions….When I look at them I wonder whether they have learned from history.
Men at work
There’s a hell of a lot of building going on in Honiara right now. Preparations for the 2012 Pacific Arts Festival has meant an unprecedented amount of public works…up to and including footpaths!! This building however is one of the many Chinese owned shops that will most likely house yet more of the small general store operations so common here.
Such developments provide an opportunity for unskilled labor to enter the construction industry but they do nothing for local ownership of a means of capital generation. It is precisely this activity that contributed to the 2003 tensions….When I look at them I wonder whether they have learned from history.