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Retail Worker Politics, Race and Consumption in South Africa

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Palgrave Macmillan


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Rethinking International Development series

Paru le : 2018-05-23

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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 power of the state to interpellate subjects. These more common explanations make workers and their politics visible only as a symptom of external conditions, a response to deregulated markets or a product of state recognition. Instead – through a history of retailing as a site of nation and belonging, changing legal regimes, and articulations of race, class and gender in the constitution of political subjects from the 1930s to present-day Wal-Mart – this book presents the experiences and subjectivities of workers themselves to show that the collective political subject ‘workers’ (abasebenzi) is both a durable and malleable political category. From white to black women’s labour, the forms of precariousness have changed within retailing in South Africa. Workers’ struggles in different times have in turn resolved some dilemmas and by other turn generated new categories and conditions of precariousness, all the while explaining enduring attachments to labour politics.
Pages
282 pages
Collection
Rethinking International Development series
Parution
2018-05-23
Marque
Palgrave Macmillan
EAN papier
9783319695501
EAN PDF
9783319695518
Informations sur l'ebook
Nombre pages copiables
2
Nombre pages imprimables
28
Taille du fichier
3901 Ko
Prix
26,36 €
EAN EPUB
9783319695518
Informations sur l'ebook
Nombre pages copiables
2
Nombre pages imprimables
28
Taille du fichier
3512 Ko
Prix
26,36 €

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