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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| Médium: | Elektronický zdroj E-kniha |
| Jazyk: | English |
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Springer International Publishing,
2018.
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| Vydanie: | 1st ed. 2018. |
| Edícia: | Rethinking International Development series
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| ISBN: | 9783319695518 |
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Obsah:
- 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.