Retail Worker Politics, Race and Consumption in South Africa Shelved in the Service Economy /

This book argues that we need to focus attention on the ways that workers themselves have invested subjectively in what it means to be a worker. By doing so, we gain an explanation that moves us beyond the economic decisions made by actors, the institutional constraints faced by trade unions, or the...

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1. Verfasser: Kenny, Bridget (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Cham : Springer International Publishing, 2018.
Ausgabe:1st ed. 2018.
Schriftenreihe:Rethinking International Development series
Schlagworte:
Economic development.
Political science.
Citizenship.
Africa-Economic conditions.
Labor law.
ISBN:9783319695518
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505 0 |a Chapter 1. Introduction: Precarity in Store -- Chapter 2. Servicing a Nation: White Women Shop Assistants and the Fantasy of Belonging -- Chapter 3. Rupturing Relations: Abasebenzi as Collective Political Subject -- Chapter 4. Regulating Retail: The Category "Employee" and its Divisions -- Chapter 5. Signifying Belonging: Restructuring and Workplace Relations -- Chapter 6. "Tools Down, Everybody out to the Canteen!": Wildcats and Go-slows, Political Subjects Reconfigured -- Chapter 7. "To Sit at Home and Do Nothing": Gender and the Constitutive Meaning of Work -- Chapter 8. Consuming Politics: Wal-Mart, the New Terrain of Belonging and the Endurance of Abasebenzi. 
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