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From the shop floor to the kitchen table: the shifting centre of precarious workers' politics in South Africa
This article argues that, as wage work has become more precarious, the importance of the household in the livelihood strategies of precarious South African workers has increased. The shifting importance of the household in relation to the workplace in the economic lives of workers has implications for the political strategies that these workers adopt. The article draws on data from a national household survey combined with insights from the author's fieldwork across rural and urban sites in South Africa. It contributes to the growing literature on the politics of precarious work in the global South.
Journal Article
Organised labour and the politics of class formation in post-apartheid South Africa
This paper will examine the processes of class formation being augmented by South Africa's democratic transition and the impacts these processes are having on trade union organising. Through a case study of the National Union of Mineworkers in the energy industry, it will be argued that affirmative action and employment equity policies are opening up divisions within the union and eroding its unifying class identity. This poses a great challenge, not only to trade union organisation, but also to how we understand the political role of South Africa's trade unions within the post-apartheid era.
[Le travail organisé et la politique de formation des classes après l'époque de l'apartheid en Afrique du Sud.] Le présent document examine les processus de formation des classes mis en croissance par la transition démocratique en Afrique du Sud et les impacts que ces processus ont sur l'organisation syndicale. Grâce à une étude de cas du Syndicat national des mineurs (NUM) dans le secteur de l'énergie, on fera valoir que l'action positive et les politiques d'équité dans le domaine de l'emploi suscitent des divisions au sein de l'Union et entament l'identité de la classe unificatrice. Cela pose un grand défi, non seulement à l'organisation syndicale, mais aussi à la façon dont nous comprenons le rôle politique des syndicats d'Afrique du Sud à travers l'ère d'après- apartheid.
Mots-clés: Afrique du Sud ; les syndicats ; l'action positive ; COSATU ; ANC
Journal Article
COSATU’S Contested Legacy
COSATU's Contested Legacy analyses the dilemmas and opportunities of trade unionism in contemporary South Africa. The volume brings into sharp relief the contestation that union activists engage in as they seek to chart a future trajectory for trade unionism.
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Union-Party Alliances in the Era of Market Regulation: The Case of South Africa
Analyses of the alliance between the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) and the ruling African National Congress (ANC) have been preoccupied with debating the desirability or otherwise of this alliance. Even those that have acknowledged stresses in the alliance because of neo-liberal policies of the ANC government have failed to account for the general fragility of union-party alliances in the contemporary world. This article begins by acknowledging that union-party relations are affected by political transitions such as those in developing countries, including South Africa's more recent one. The article then takes the debate further by providing a framework for understanding the nature of these alliances in a liberalising world. It argues that a critical shortcoming of existing analyses is their failure to locate union-party alliances in the context of a transition from 'social regulation' to 'market regulation'. The article uses the alliance between COSATU and the ANC to illustrate this argument. For COSATU, the shift from social regulation to market regulation presents itself as a 'paradox of victory'. This means that while the federation was a central actor in the struggle for political democracy, it is now increasingly finding itself relegated to a marginal role. The article concludes by arguing that the advent of market regulation results in the 'withering away' of existing union-party alliances.
Journal Article
Cosatu members are asked to stop harassing staff at national congress
RANDY Cosatu congress delegates had to be told off this week after trying to get \"unnecessary benefits\" from catering staff at the Gallagher Convention Centre, where the labour federation met this week. He refused to discuss the details of suggestions delegates made to staff, but said some Cosatu members were asking the catering workers \"to do it with them\". Cosatu's congress resolution on the issue \"notes with serious concern the new glass ceiling for women leaders in the union movement. Women occupy positions of deputy or treasurer, but hardly ever as presidents and general secretaries,\" the declaration read.
Newspaper Article
Catering staff harassed by randy Cosatu congress delegates
RANDY Cosatu congress delegates had to be told off this week after trying to get \"unnecessary benefits\" from catering staff at the Gallagher Convention Centre where the labour federation met this week. Appearing rather embarrassed about the matter, the leader admitted that Cosatu was concerned that messages about gender equality were not filtering through to union members. He refused to discuss the details of suggestions delegates made to staff, but said some Cosatu members were asking the catering workers \"to do it with them\".
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Randy unionists rebuffed
The idea of discussing the legalisation of prostitution also got [RANDY Cosatu] members going, as there were several cat calls and wolf whistles when Cosatu general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi announced this subject as one of the resolutions to be discussed. - Own Correspondent
Newspaper Article
The Second Transition: Hope and Fear
This article examines the course of South African President Thabo Mbeki's last term & considers possible successors. While the African National Congress's (ANC) raison d'etre was to fight against colonialism & oppression, careerists of the Mbeki regime have sought to enrich themselves at the country's expense while also trying to ingratiate themselves with the people. Mbeki himself, not very far ideologically from Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe & sharing the latter's suspicion for the West, has discretely allowed Mugabe to remain in power. Mbeki's firing of Deputy President Jacob Zuma caused the ANC to reject Mbeki's bid for a third term as leader & to elect Zuma (despite charges of corruption) as the heir apparent, although this suggests a leadership shift toward socialist & unionist interests. South Africa needs a strong, principled, ethical leader, but such a candidate, & perhaps even interest in one, seems unlikely. Photographs. S. Stanton
Journal Article