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...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1. Introduction: Precarity in Store
• Chapter 2. Servicing a Nation: White Women Shop Assistants and the Fantasy of Belonging
• Chapter 3. Rupturing Relations: Abasebenzi as Collective Political Subject
• Chapter 4. Regulating Retail: The Category "Employee" and its Divisions
• Chapter 5. Signifying Belonging: Restructuring and Workplace Relations
• Chapter 6. "Tools Down, Everybody out to the Canteen!": Wildcats and Go-slows, Political Subjects Reconfigured
• Chapter 7. "To Sit at Home and Do Nothing": Gender and the Constitutive Meaning of Work
• Chapter 8. Consuming Politics: Wal-Mart, the New Terrain of Belonging and the Endurance of Abasebenzi.