Download or read book Labour Perspective on South Africa written by Wolfgang H. Thomas and published by . This book was released on 1974-05 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Labour Perspectives on South Africa written by Wolfgang H. Thomas and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conference report on the role of trade unions in South Africa R, with particular reference to the labour force participation of black Africans and intergroup relations - comments on labour legislation, the question of equal opportunity in respect of employment opportunity and working conditions, management attitudes, economic implications of changing labour relations, leadership development, the improvement of social security, etc. Bibliography pp. 246 to 254 and statistical tables. Conference held in cape town 1973 jan.
Download or read book Laws against strikes The South African Experience in an international and Comparative Perspective written by AA. VV. and published by FrancoAngeli. This book was released on 2015-05-28 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Laws against Strikes, comprising contributions from South African, Italian and British legal scholars, examines the right to strike in periods of socio-economic crisis. The book aims to contribute to the debates on this issue, by comparing, where a
Download or read book The Emergence of Modern South Africa written by David Yudelman and published by New Africa Books. This book was released on 1983 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Emergence of Modern South Africa views economic conflict, specifically the interaction of the state, big business, and labor, as the central issue in the development of South Africa. Yudelman focuses on the labor-management conflict in the country's gold fields in the early decades of this century, a time and place critical to the development of the state. At that time government walked a tightrope between supporting big business (to ensure economic growth) and appeasing the workers (to remain in power). Yudelman demonstrates how a symbiotic alliance between the mining companies and the state successfully subjugated the workers, and points out that this unique relationship continues to this day, dominating every aspect of life in South Africa. David Yudelman's historical analysis and lengthy epilogue on the 1970s and 1980s shed light on today's economic unrest and those conflicts to come. His book also shows how the South African case provides early and important insights into the development of the state-business symbiosis in industrial societies everywhere.
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Download or read book Universally Comprehensible Arrogantly Local written by Wiebke Keim and published by Archives contemporaines. This book was released on 2017-04-01 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the perspective of the international scholarly community under North Atlantic domination, South Africa might look like a peripheral place of knowledge production. In recent years, a plethora of voices calling for provincializing Europe, for deconstructing Eurocentrism and for adopting post- and decolonial perspectives have challenged such views. They have partly transformed the academic landscape, but have had limited success in challenging the fundamental global divides in production, circulation and recognition of social scientific knowledge. This book chooses a different take on the question of how North Atlantic domination could be challenged, by conceptualizing counter-hegemonic currents in international sociology. Instead of providing theoretical and deconstructive critiques, counter-hegemonic currents are effective through collective social scientific practice: the production of data, knowledge and texts, of new generations of scholars, the interaction with extra-university actors, leading to the gradual emergence of integrated and productive scientific communities. Their orientation towards local arenas of discussion and production of socially relevant research effectively reduces the belief in the hegemony of the North. The historical development of South African labour studies is a case in point. This study provides a systematic, in-depth analysis of research and teaching activities, networks with extra-academic actors and international cooperation over time in the three major Labour Studies centres: Johannesburg, Durban and Cape Town. It draws on a rich variety of material, including annual reports of research centres and labour service organizations, teaching contents and exam questions, the 1974-2003 volumes of the “South African Labour Bulletin” and newsletters of ISA Research Committee 44 on Labour Movements. Qualitative analysis of four seminal books is used to assess their contribution to original, general theory-building. In-depth interviews with Labour Studies representatives complement the analysis of documents and literature by reconstructing the oral history of this scholarly community, an indispensable source given that many debates could not appear in written form or had to be watered during the Apartheid years. The study concludes that over time, South African social scientists have generated knowledge on labour, industry and trade unions that is universally comprehensible, but arrogantly local.
Download or read book Aging in Sub Saharan Africa written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2006-11-10 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In sub-Saharan Africa, older people make up a relatively small fraction of the total population and are supported primarily by family and other kinship networks. They have traditionally been viewed as repositories of information and wisdom, and are critical pillars of the community but as the HIV/AIDS pandemic destroys family systems, the elderly increasingly have to deal with the loss of their own support while absorbing the additional responsibilities of caring for their orphaned grandchildren. Aging in Sub-Saharan Africa explores ways to promote U.S. research interests and to augment the sub-Saharan governments' capacity to address the many challenges posed by population aging. Five major themes are explored in the book such as the need for a basic definition of "older person," the need for national governments to invest more in basic research and the coordination of data collection across countries, and the need for improved dialogue between local researchers and policy makers. This book makes three major recommendations: 1) the development of a research agenda 2) enhancing research opportunity and implementation and 3) the translation of research findings.
Download or read book University of Cape Town 1973 Labour Perspectives on South Africa Edited by Wolfgang H Thomas Proceedings of a Workshop on Organised Labour in South African Society written by WORKSHOP ON ORGANISED LABOUR IN SOUTH AFRICAN SOCIETY. and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Exploring the Core Content of Socio economic Rights written by Danie Brand and published by Spotlight Poets. This book was released on 2002 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together a series of papers and responses to papers presented at a conference on the minimum core content of socio-economic rights in Pretoria, South Africa, during August 2000. The papers aim to describe the minimum core content of different socio-economic rights, first from an international law perspective and then, by way of response from a South African perspective. In the process the normative content of the rights concerned is given flesh: the authors attempt to identify particular obligations that can be said to form the core of rights such as the right to housing, the right to food, the right to education and the rights to social security and assistance. At the same time the concept of a minimum core content, or minimum core obligations of economic and social rights is problematised and the difficulties of using concepts developed within the general and abstract realm of international law in the more particular and concrete context of domestic rights adjudication are explored. This book as a result contains a great deal of practically useful information for use by human rights practitioners, both legal and non-legal. At the same time it provides some critical reflection on that information and the conceptual framework from which it is derived.
Download or read book From Chattel to Wage Slavery written by W. M. Tsotsi and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Political Economy of the Southern African Periphery written by Betty J. Harris and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Political Economy of the Southern African Periphery places Swazi women in the context of the world system at the global, regional and local levels. From a socio-historical perspective, the book analyzes industrialization from Europe to South Africa to Swaziland. In southern Africa, there was a heavy emphasis on mining requiring the migration of male labour from areas of the southern African periphery to the Witwatersrand area of South Africa. In contemporary South Africa, industrialization has resulted in capital mobility for textile and clothing industries within the confines of the region. Industries relocate to the southern African periphery with high concentrations of female labour necessitating that women migrate from remote rural areas and create new family arrangements because male and female migratory patterns do not coincide. Unlike other areas of the southern African periphery, Swaziland has had both domestic and foreign migratory labour systems. The former includes both males and females and the latter is almost exclusively male. The book explores female wage labour in relation to options for employment and the maintenance of viable nuclear and extended family networks.
Download or read book Labour Relations in South Africa written by Matthew Grossett and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The South African labour market has undergone unparalleled reformations since 1994. This textbook, up to date with all legislation at the time of writing, provides a comprehensive text for students at tertiary institutions. It should also be a useful reference for industrial relations practitioners.
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Download or read book Rethinking Labour in Africa Past and Present written by Lynn Schler and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a broad range of perspectives on major transformations in the research of labor in Africa contexts over the last twenty years. This is a groundbreaking work by social scientists and historians; adopting innovative paradigms in the study of African laborers, working classes and economies, it moves away from stringent Marxist perspectives towards more localized and fluid conceptions of materiality and productivity. Against the backdrop of increasing mobility of labor and capital, the authors demonstrate the need for a simultaneous consideration of local, national and transnational contexts. The collection of essays provides multiple perspectives on how African workers have negotiated changes and exploited opportunities in increasingly globalized workplaces, while at the same time confronting the impact of global capitalist expansion on local settings in Africa. This book was previously published as a Special Issue of African Identities.
Download or read book General Labour History of Africa written by Stefano Bellucci and published by James Currey. This book was released on 2019-05-17 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive and authoritative history of work and labour in Africa; a key text for all working on African Studies and Labour History worldwide.
Download or read book Black Villagers in an Industrial Society written by Philip Mayer and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1980 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social and cultural anthropology monograph containing several field studies on the social implications of Black labour mobility (internal migration) and labour force emigration in relation to migrant workers' village origin and destinations in South Africa R and Lesotho - discusses foundation and decline of resistance ideologies to labour migration, effects of migration on agricultural production, social stratification and family social structure (incl. Marriage), traditional culture, remittance, etc.). Bibliography pp. 341 to 353.
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