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Liberation Of, Through, Or From Work? Postcolonial Africa And The Problem With “Job Creation” In The Global Crisis, Franco Barchiesi
Liberation Of, Through, Or From Work? Postcolonial Africa And The Problem With “Job Creation” In The Global Crisis, Franco Barchiesi
Franco Barchiesi
The precarity of employment in an age of globally financialized capital cannot be reduced to the sociological problems of erosion of stable jobs with benefits and proliferation of insecure occupations. It is rather a political issue that interrogates the ability of state and capital to turn multitudes into governable and productive subjects. As such it is underscored by attempts by financial capital to “capture” living labor beyond the confines of production and across the social spectrum. It is also characterized by the widening gaps between official norms that center social inclusion around work ethic and economic activity and material realities …
Precarity As Capture: A Conceptual Reconstruction And Critique Of The Worker-Slave Analogy, Franco Barchiesi
Precarity As Capture: A Conceptual Reconstruction And Critique Of The Worker-Slave Analogy, Franco Barchiesi
Franco Barchiesi
No abstract provided.
Precarious Collaborations. Working-Class Subjectivities, Community Activism, And The Problem With “Social Movement Unionism” In Late-Apartheid East Rand (South Africa), Franco Barchiesi, Bridget Kenny
Precarious Collaborations. Working-Class Subjectivities, Community Activism, And The Problem With “Social Movement Unionism” In Late-Apartheid East Rand (South Africa), Franco Barchiesi, Bridget Kenny
Franco Barchiesi
An influential current in South African labor studies has used the concept of ‘social movement unionism’ to characterize organized labor’s contribution to South Africa’s post-Apartheid democratization. Part of the concept of social movement unionism is the idea that during the 1980s independent black workers’ unions combined workplace struggles with community-based concerns related to social services, repression, and political disenfranchisement. In this way, trade unions came to play a politically transformative role, which implied both innovative labor-community alliances and the appropriation by organized labor of social movements’ mobilizing modalities. After a decline in the immediate post-Apartheid period, when scholars and union …
Informality And Casualization As Challenges For South Africa’S Industrial Unionism: The Case Of The East Rand/Ekurhuleni Region In The 1990s, Franco Barchiesi
Informality And Casualization As Challenges For South Africa’S Industrial Unionism: The Case Of The East Rand/Ekurhuleni Region In The 1990s, Franco Barchiesi
Franco Barchiesi
No abstract provided.
Labor And Social Citizenship In Colonial And Postcolonial Modernity: South African Perspectives In A Continental Context, Franco Barchiesi
Labor And Social Citizenship In Colonial And Postcolonial Modernity: South African Perspectives In A Continental Context, Franco Barchiesi
Franco Barchiesi
No abstract provided.
Commodification, Economic Restructuring, And The Changing Urban Geography Of Labor In Post-Apartheid South Africa: The Case Of Gauteng Province, 1991-2001, Franco Barchiesi
Commodification, Economic Restructuring, And The Changing Urban Geography Of Labor In Post-Apartheid South Africa: The Case Of Gauteng Province, 1991-2001, Franco Barchiesi
Franco Barchiesi
No abstract provided.
The Debate On The Basic Income Grant In South Africa: Social Citizenship, Wage Labour And The Reconstruction Of Working Class Politics, Franco Barchiesi
The Debate On The Basic Income Grant In South Africa: Social Citizenship, Wage Labour And The Reconstruction Of Working Class Politics, Franco Barchiesi
Franco Barchiesi
No abstract provided.
Inequality, Wage Labour And Social Citizenship In The Making Of South Africa’S Post-Apartheid Democracy, Franco Barchiesi
Inequality, Wage Labour And Social Citizenship In The Making Of South Africa’S Post-Apartheid Democracy, Franco Barchiesi
Franco Barchiesi
No abstract provided.
Classes, Multitudes And The Politics Of Community Movements In Post-Apartheid South Africa, Franco Barchiesi
Classes, Multitudes And The Politics Of Community Movements In Post-Apartheid South Africa, Franco Barchiesi
Franco Barchiesi
No abstract provided.
Socio-Economic Exploitation, Meaning Contestation And The Trc: Problematic Foundations For A Discourse Of Social Citizenship In Post-Apartheid South Africa, Franco Barchiesi
Socio-Economic Exploitation, Meaning Contestation And The Trc: Problematic Foundations For A Discourse Of Social Citizenship In Post-Apartheid South Africa, Franco Barchiesi
Franco Barchiesi
No abstract provided.