LABOUR STUDIES IN DEMOCRATIC SOUTH AFRICA (LATE XXTH – EARLY XXIST CENTURY)

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  A. Pogasiy

Abstract

Article deals with the development of labour studies in South Africa after apartheid. Theoretical and institutional origins of the South African labour studies are shown. The key research directions in post-apartheid era are identified: COSATU activity within the Tripartite Alliance, the internal evolution of trade unions, informalization of labour and its impact on the labour movement; major works in the field are analyzed.

How to Cite

Pogasiy, A. (2014). LABOUR STUDIES IN DEMOCRATIC SOUTH AFRICA (LATE XXTH – EARLY XXIST CENTURY). The Oriental Studies, (65-66), 89-101. https://doi.org/10.15407/skhodoznavstvo2014.65-66.089
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Keywords

Democratic South Africa (late XXth – early XXIst century), Labour Studies

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Buhlungu S. and Tshoaedi M. (eds) (2013), COSATU’S Contested Legacy: South African Trade Unions in the Second Decade of Democracy, Cape Town. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004214606

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Webster E. (1999), “Race, labour process and transition: the sociology of work in South Africa”, Society in Transition, No. 30 (1). https://doi.org/10.1080/10289852.1999.10520166

Webster E. (2004), “South African Labour Studies in a Global Perspective, 1973–2006”, Labour, Capital and Society, No. 37.

Webster E. and Buhlungu S. (2004), “Between marginalisation & revitalisation? Тhe state of trade unionism in South Africa”, Review of African Political Economy, No. 31 (100). https://doi.org/10.1080/0305624042000262266

Webster E. and Von Holdt K. (eds) (2005), Beyond the Apartheid Workplace: studies in transition, Pietermaritzburg.

Webster E., Lambert R., and Beziudenhout A. (2008), Grounding globalization: Labour in the age of insecurity, Oxford.

Wolpe H. (1972), “Capitalism and cheap labour-power in South Africa: from segregation to apartheid”, Economy and Society, No. 1 (4). https://doi.org/10.1080/03085147200000023