Urban youth unemployment in Zimbabwe: nature, challenges and consequences

Abstract

The chapter on ‘Urban Youth Unemployment in Zimbabwe’ by Steven Jerie focuses on the city of Gweru, the third largest in Zimbabwe. It starts with the general problem of the limited number of labour studies in Zimbabwe which is rather paradoxical because, before the formation of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) — the largest opposition party, their main ally the Zimbabwe Trade Union Congress undertook a good number of labour studies.