Beyond the apartheid workplace: studies in transition /
Webster, Edward
Beyond the apartheid workplace: studies in transition / Edward Webster and Karl von Holdt - Scottsville, South Africa : Univ. of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2005. - XX, 497 colour illustrations: 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (p. 461-483) and index.
Summary: "Beyond the Apartheid Workplace shows how South Africa's triple transition - towards political democracy economic liberalisation and post-colonial transformation - has generated contradictory pressures at workplace level. A wide range of managerial strategies and union responses are identified, demonstrating both continuities and discontinuities with past practices." "These studies reveal a growing differentiation within the world of work between stable, formal-sector work, casualised and outsourced work, and informal work where people struggle to 'make a living' on the margins of the formal economy. The majority of workplaces are marked by the persistence and reconfiguration of the apartheid legacy. The growth of casualisation and informalisation generates deepening poverty and exclusion among great numbers of households. These are some of the startling conclusions drawn by the editors of this groundbreaking collection, which will undoubtedly stimulate debate and further research among social scientists, trade unionists, managers and policymakers.
Adult
9781869 140656
South Africa
Johannesburg (2003) Kongress Kongress. Konferenzschrift
331.0968 BEYO
Beyond the apartheid workplace: studies in transition / Edward Webster and Karl von Holdt - Scottsville, South Africa : Univ. of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2005. - XX, 497 colour illustrations: 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (p. 461-483) and index.
Summary: "Beyond the Apartheid Workplace shows how South Africa's triple transition - towards political democracy economic liberalisation and post-colonial transformation - has generated contradictory pressures at workplace level. A wide range of managerial strategies and union responses are identified, demonstrating both continuities and discontinuities with past practices." "These studies reveal a growing differentiation within the world of work between stable, formal-sector work, casualised and outsourced work, and informal work where people struggle to 'make a living' on the margins of the formal economy. The majority of workplaces are marked by the persistence and reconfiguration of the apartheid legacy. The growth of casualisation and informalisation generates deepening poverty and exclusion among great numbers of households. These are some of the startling conclusions drawn by the editors of this groundbreaking collection, which will undoubtedly stimulate debate and further research among social scientists, trade unionists, managers and policymakers.
Adult
9781869 140656
South Africa
Johannesburg (2003) Kongress Kongress. Konferenzschrift
331.0968 BEYO