Labour Beyond Cosatu: Mapping the Rupture in South Africa?s Labour Landscape - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 1776140532 ISBN 13: 9781776140534

Casa editrice: Witwatersrand Univ Pr, 2017

Riassunto

Labour Beyond Cosatu is the fourth volume in the series Taking Democracy Seriously – a ground-breaking, textured and nuanced study on workers and democracy – which was established in the 1990s. The series looks at members of trade unions affiliated to the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) and provides a rich database of trade union members and research conducted over the past twenty years. It is one of the very few such resources available to researchers anywhere in the world.
Labour Beyond Cosatu paints a complex picture. The 12 chapters of the volume explore various rebellions and conflicts in the trade union sector, starting with the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) and rivalries between Cosatu affiliates. Unpacking the conflicts between state-sector and private-sector workers, contributors look at the impact of generational and educational shifts, seen by some commentators as proof that Cosatu is now ‘middle class’. The book also raises the issue of gender in the unions by usefully locating the controversy around charges levelled at Zwelinzima Vavi in 2013 in the larger context of serious problems in the gender politics within parts of Cosatu.
Refuting the image of a union federation solidly committed to the ANC, Labour Beyond Cosatu presents evidence of a sharp decline in support for the ANC within Cosatu, and growing scepticism towards the Alliance. It shows that attempts to understand the labour movement in South Africa in the future will need to include research of smaller, independent unions and social movements. The volume’s contributors make a major contribution to key debates on labour and democracy, providing new material that can potentially shift the discussion in important ways.
This book will be of great value to students and researchers in Industrial Sociology, Political Studies, Industrial Psychology and Economics and Management.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Andries Bezuidenhout is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Pretoria. Malehoko Tshoaedi is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the University of Pretoria. They both publish prolifically in the area of labour studies, rights and movements, trade unions and industrial policy and women s rights and activism within trade union and labour movements.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Witwatersrand Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2017
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1776140532
• ISBN 13: 9781776140534
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 272
• Redattore: Bezuidenhout Andries, Tshoaedi Malehoko, Bischoff Christine
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile