Retail Worker Politics, Race and Consumption in South Africa Shelved in the Service Economy /

• Main Author: Kenny, Bridget (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Rethinking International Development series
• Subjects: Economic development.; Political science.; Citizenship.; Africa-Economic conditions.; Labor law.; Development Studies.; Political Science.; African Economics.; Labour Law/Social Law.

This book argues that we need to focus attention on the ways that workers themselves have invested subjectively in what it means to be a worker. By doing so, we gain an explanation that moves us beyond the economic decisions made by actors, the institutional constraints faced by trade unions, or the...