LEADER 03526nam 2200589Ia 450 001 9910815310003321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-4384-3612-2 010 $a1-4619-0599-0 024 7 $a10.1515/9781438436128 035 $a(CKB)2560000000080684 035 $a(OCoLC)794788545 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10574149 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3407287 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10574149 035 $a(DE-B1597)681336 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781438436128 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3407287 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000080684 100 $a20100806d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aPrecarious liberation $eworkers, the state, and contested social citizenship in postapartheid South Africa /$fFranco Barchiesi 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aAlbany $cState University of New York Press ;$aScottsville, South Africa $cUniversity of KwaZulu-Natal Press$dc2011 215 $a1 online resource (356 p.) 225 1 $aSUNY series in global modernity 311 $a1-4384-3610-6 311 $a1-4384-3611-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront Matter -- $tContents -- $tIllustrations -- $tPreface -- $tNote on South Africa?s Racial Terminology -- $tIntroduction -- $tRedeeming Labor -- $tThe Work-Citizenship Nexus of Postapartheid South Africa -- $tContesting Commodification -- $tThe Changing World of Work in Gauteng -- $tTranslation Troubles -- $t?Like a Branch on a Rotten Tree? -- $tConclusion -- $tAppendix on Methodology -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aWinner of the 2012 CLR James Award presented by the Working Class Studies AssociationMillions of black South African workers struggled against apartheid to redeem employment and production from a history of abuse, insecurity, and racial despotism. Almost two decades later, however, the prospects of a dignified life of wage-earning work remain unattainable for most South Africans. Through extensive archival and ethnographic research, Franco Barchiesi documents and interrogates this important dilemma in the country's democratic transition: economic participation has gained centrality in the government's definition of virtuous citizenship, and yet for most workers, employment remains an elusive and insecure experience. In a context of market liberalization and persistent social and racial inequalities, as jobs in South Africa become increasingly flexible, fragmented, and unprotected, they depart from the promise of work with dignity and citizenship rights that once inspired opposition to apartheid. Barchiesi traces how the employment crisis and the responses of workers to it challenge the state's normative imagination of work, and raise decisive questions for the social foundations and prospects of South Africa's democratic experiment. 410 0$aSUNY series in global modernity. 606 $aWorking class$zSouth Africa 606 $aWages$zSouth Africa 606 $aDemocratization$zSouth Africa 607 $aSouth Africa$xPolitics and government$y1994- 615 0$aWorking class 615 0$aWages 615 0$aDemocratization 676 $a305.5/620968 700 $aBarchiesi$b Franco$0706161 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910815310003321 996 $aPrecarious liberation$91351891 997 $aUNINA