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Social Movement Unionism: the Case of South Africa
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In the context of renewed international debates about the significance of social movement unionism, the authors undertakes a detailed analysis of Social Movement unionism in a South African steelworkers' union.Abstract:
In the context of renewed international debates about the significance of social movement unionism, this article undertakes a detailed analysis of social movement unionism in a South African steelw...read more
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Learning from the Ground Up : Global Perspectives on Social Movements and Knowledge Production
Aziz Choudry,Dip Kapoor +1 more
TL;DR: Learning from the Ground Up as mentioned in this paper is a collection of interviews with activists that explore the dynamics, politics, and richness of knowledge production within social movements and activist contexts, and highlight the significance of knowledge-production dimensions of movement activism.
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Precarious Labor, South and North: An Introduction
TL;DR: In this paper, a special issue on precarious labor in global perspective includes analyses of precarious work in South Africa, Mexico, the United States, China and India, highlighting workers' capacity for collective action, hidden forms of work that are not tracked by states, long-term historical continuities of precarious labour, and differences between precarious labour in the Global North and South.
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Social citizenship and the transformations of wage labour in the making of Post-Apartheid South Africa, 1994-2001
TL;DR: Barchiesi et al. as mentioned in this paper studied at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. http://www.facultyofhumanitiesandsocial sciences.ac.in.
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Adventures of Emancipatory Labour Strategy as the New Global Movement Challenges International Unionism
TL;DR: The notion of Social Movement Unionism (SMU) was first suggested in the late-1980s in South Africa as mentioned in this paper, where it had both political and academic impact, and the South-African formulation combined the class and the popular: a response to this combined class and new social movement theory/practice.
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Challenging Transition Theory: The Labor Movement, Radical Reform, and Transition to Democracy in South Africa
Glenn Adler,Edward Webster +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the AA. critiquent plus particulierement le point de vue de A. Przeworski en mettant en avant le role central joue par le mouvement ouvrier dans la formation des institutions, de la politique et des pratiques de transition.
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Voting for Ford: Industrial Democracy and the Control of Labour
Peter Cressey,John MacInnes +1 more
TL;DR: There has never been such complete democracy in the management of industrial establishments as exists in our shops, as stated by F.W. Taylor as mentioned in this paper, who argued that there has been a "complete democracy in industrial establishments".
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Political and collective violence in Southern African historiography
TL;DR: In this paper, political and collective violence in Southern African history has been studied in the context of Southern African historiography, focusing on the role of women in political violence in South Africa.