ABSTRACT
Company-generated employment provides an important opportunity for average citizens, particularly youth or others without land, to benefit from a company's presence and gain legitimate access to cash. Jobs are one: of the: biggest corporate contributions to a local economy and should, theoretically, solidify company–community relations. Companies commit themselves to hiring locally. Companies regularly announce that they are politically neutral with regard to ethnic or other sub-group conflict. They adopt policies that are intended to avoid the perception of bias or favoritism among groups. Communities often accuse companies of deliberately keeping job seekers in the dark in order to benefit from this cheap and readily available labor. New company sites attract large groups of job seekers, some of whom come long distances. When a company has a large start-up construction phase before operations begin, many job opportunities come to an end once the construction is complete.
