03669nam 2200649Ia 450 991096240190332120200520144314.0978143843612814384361229781461905998146190599010.1515/9781438436128(CKB)2560000000080684(OCoLC)794788545(CaPaEBR)ebrary10574149(Au-PeEL)EBL3407287(CaPaEBR)ebr10574149(DE-B1597)681336(DE-B1597)9781438436128(MiAaPQ)EBC3407287(Perlego)2673786(EXLCZ)99256000000008068420100806d2011 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierPrecarious liberation workers, the state, and contested social citizenship in postapartheid South Africa /Franco Barchiesi1st ed.Albany State University of New York Press ;Scottsville, South Africa University of KwaZulu-Natal Pressc20111 online resource (356 p.)SUNY series in global modernity9781438436104 1438436106 9781438436111 1438436114 Includes bibliographical references and index.Front Matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Note on South Africa’s Racial Terminology -- Introduction -- Redeeming Labor -- The Work-Citizenship Nexus of Postapartheid South Africa -- Contesting Commodification -- The Changing World of Work in Gauteng -- Translation Troubles -- “Like a Branch on a Rotten Tree” -- Conclusion -- Appendix on Methodology -- Notes -- Bibliography -- IndexWinner of the 2012 CLR James Award presented by the Working Class Studies AssociationMillions of black South African workers struggled against apartheid to redeem employment and production from a history of abuse, insecurity, and racial despotism. Almost two decades later, however, the prospects of a dignified life of wage-earning work remain unattainable for most South Africans. Through extensive archival and ethnographic research, Franco Barchiesi documents and interrogates this important dilemma in the country's democratic transition: economic participation has gained centrality in the government's definition of virtuous citizenship, and yet for most workers, employment remains an elusive and insecure experience. In a context of market liberalization and persistent social and racial inequalities, as jobs in South Africa become increasingly flexible, fragmented, and unprotected, they depart from the promise of work with dignity and citizenship rights that once inspired opposition to apartheid. Barchiesi traces how the employment crisis and the responses of workers to it challenge the state's normative imagination of work, and raise decisive questions for the social foundations and prospects of South Africa's democratic experiment.SUNY series in global modernity.Working classSouth AfricaWagesSouth AfricaDemocratizationSouth AfricaSouth AfricaPolitics and government1994-Working classWagesDemocratization305.5/620968Barchiesi Franco706161MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910962401903321Precarious liberation1351891UNINA