Precarious Liberation : Workers, the State, and Contested Social Citizenship in Postapartheid South Africa
Precarious Liberation -- Precarious Liberation -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Note on South Africa's Racial Terminology -- Introduction -- The Promise of Wage Labor in South Africa's Democratization -- The Nexus of Work and Social Citizenship as a Contested Field of Signification -- Work and Citizenship in Postcolonial and Postapartheid Modernity -- Conclusion and Summary of Chapters -- 1. Redeeming Labor: From the Racial State to National Liberation -- Introduction -- "Schooling Bodies to Hard Work": Labor, Modernity, and the Policy Discourse of the Racial State -- The Hopes and Disappointments of an Inclusive South Africanism -- Apartheid Social Engineering and the Coercive Enforcement of Wage Labor Discipline -- Black Workers' Struggles and the Redemption of Wage Labor, 1973-1994 -- Conclusion -- 2. The Work-Citizenship Nexus of Postapartheid South Africa -- Resistance Is Futile: The Governance Project of the ANC in the "New South Africa" -- The Changing Face of Precariousness -- Building the Patriotic Worker: The Democratic Constitutionalization of Wage Labor -- Conclusion: Disciplining Citizenship -- 3. Contesting Commodification: Social Policy Debates in the Crisis of Waged Employment -- Introduction: Governing in the Shadow of Precariousness -- Social Policy as a Technology of Self-Responsibility -- "Laudable Citizens" and "Silly Fools": Work, Families, and the Developmental Social Welfare Idea -- "The Wage-Income Relationship Is Breaking Down": Basic Income and Contested Decommodification -- Conclusion: Precarious Employment as the New "People's Contract"? -- 4. The Changing World of Work in Gauteng -- Introduction: Dreaming of Modernity in the "Place of Gold" -- City of Industry: The East Rand/Ekurhuleni and the Promise of Work -- Economic Restructuring and Employment Decline: The East Rand in Transition.
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2011
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Authors: | Barchiesi, Franco |
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Albany : State University of New York Press |
Description of contents: | Table of Contents [external.dandelon.com] |
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Extent: | 1 online resource (356 pages) |
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Type of publication: | Book / Working Paper |
Language: | English |
Notes: | Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources. |
ISBN: | 978-1-4384-3612-8 ; 978-1-4384-3611-1 |
Source: | ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW |
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012687613
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