950
Views
29
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Article

From the shop floor to the kitchen table: the shifting centre of precarious workers’ politics in South Africa

References

  • Agarwala, Rina. 2013. Informal Labor, Formal Politics, and Dignified Discontent in India. New York: Cambridge University Press.
  • Barchiesi, Franco. 2011. Precarious Liberation: Workers, the State, and Contested Social Citizenship in Postapartheid South Africa. Albany, South Africa: State University of New York Press.
  • Bonner, Christine, and Dave Spooner. 2011. “Organizing Labour in the Informal Economy: Institutional Forms & Relationships.” TRAVAIL, Capital et Société 44 (1): 87–105.
  • Castells, Manuel. 2004. The Power of Identity: The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture. Oxford: Blackwell.
  • Chun, Jennifer Jihye. 2009. Organizing at the Margins: The Symbolic Politics of Labor in South Korea and the United States. Ithaca: ILR Press.
  • COSATU (Congress of South African Trade Unions). 2011. “COSATU Applauds Health Minister.” Press Statement. Accessed August 2014. http://www.cosatu.org.za/show.php?ID=5565.
  • Denning, Michael. 2010. “Wageless Life.” New Left Review 66: 79–97.
  • Lee, Ching Kwan, and Yelizavetta Kofman. 2012. “The Politics of Precarity Views Beyond the United States.” Work and Occupations 39 (4): 388–408. doi: 10.1177/0730888412446710
  • Martin, William G., and Mark Beittel. 1987. “The Hidden Abode of Reproduction: Conceptualizing Households in Southern Africa.” Development and Change 18 (2): 215–234. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-7660.1987.tb00270.x
  • Milkman, Ruth, and Kim Voss. 2004. Rebuilding Labor: Organizing and Organizers in the New Union Movement. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
  • Mosoetsa, Sarah. 2011. Eating from One Pot: The Dynamics of Survival in Poor South African Households. Johannesburg: Wits University Press.
  • Munck, Ronaldo. 2013. “The Precariat: A View from the South.” Third World Quarterly 34 (5): 747–762. doi:10.1080/01436597.2013.800751.
  • Numsa [National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa]. 2013. “Launch of Numsa and Fawu Campaign for Agrarian Transformation and Land Redistribution in South Africa.” Press Release. Accessed August 2014. http://www.numsa.org.za/article/launch-of-numsa-fawu-campaign-for-agrarian-transformation-land-redistribution-in-south-africa-2013-06-13/.
  • Paret, Marcel. forthcoming. “Postcolonial Politics: Developing a Theory of Protest for South Africa”
  • Rizzo, Matteo. 2013. “Informalisation and the End of Trade Unionism as We Knew It? Dissenting Remarks from a Tanzanian Case Study.” Review of African Political Economy 40 (136): 290–308. doi: 10.1080/03056244.2013.794729
  • SALRDRU [Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit]. 2013. National Income Dynamics Study 2012, Wave 3 [dataset]. Version 1.1. Cape Town: Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit [producer], 2013. Cape Town: DataFirst [distributor].
  • SASSA [South African Social Security Agency]. 2013. Statistical Report 12 of 2013. Accessed October 2015 from http://www.sassa.gov.za/index.php/knowledge-centre/statistical-reports?download=178:statistical-report-12-of-2013&start=20.
  • Smith, Joan, and Immanuel Wallerstein. 1992. Creating and Transforming Households: The Constraints of the World-economy. New York: Cambridge University Press.
  • Standing, Guy. 2011. The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class. London: Bloomsbury Academic.
  • Theron, Jan. 2003. “Employment Is Not What It Used to Be.” Industrial Law Journal 24: 1247–1282.
  • Theron, Jan. 2010. “Informalization from Above, Informalization from Below: The Options for Organization.” African Studies Quarterly 11 (2/3): 87–105.
  • Turner, Lowell. 2005. “From Transformation to Revitalization A New Research Agenda for a Contested Global Economy.” Work and Occupations 32 (4): 383–399. doi: 10.1177/0730888405279071
  • Von Holdt, Karl, and Edward Webster. 2008. “Organising on the Periphery: New Sources of Power in the South African Workplace.” Employee Relations 30 (4): 333–354. doi: 10.1108/01425450810879330

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.