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864137
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Kenny, Bridget
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Retail worker politics, race and consumption in South Africa : : shelved in the service economy /\ Bridget Kenny.
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| Publication Statement
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Cham, Switzerland :: Palgrave Macmillan,, [2018]
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, ©2018
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Rethinking international development series
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1 online resource (xv, 282 pages)
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3319695517
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: 9783319695518
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9783319695501
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Intro; Preface and Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Abbreviations; List of Figures; Chapter 1: Introduction: Precarity in Store; "Two for the Price of One": The Inadequacies of Instrumentalism; Servicing South Africa: Retail Spaces as Nation; Law and the Category of "Employee"; "Subjects-in-Struggle": The Political Subjectivity of Retail Workers; Chapter 2: Servicing a Nation: White Women Shop Assistants and the Fantasy of Belonging; Retail Capital, the City and White Belonging; White Women's Service Labour; Skill and Status; Rules and Respectability
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Casual Employment: Student Labour, Extra Help, and ScabsExtended Trading Hours; Amacasual -- A Separate Group; Contract Labour: Splitting the Category of "Employee" as It Is Unified; Post-apartheid Labour Law Reform; Chapter 5: Signifying Belonging: Restructuring and Workplace Relations; The Hypers: Revolutionizing Modern Retailing, 1975 to the 1990s; A "Culture of Threat": Changing Workplace Relations from the Late 1990s; A Disordered Present: The Past "Moral Economy" of the Workplace; Subjectification of Workers: Outsider, Criminal, Labourer
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Chapter 6: "Tools Down, Everybody Out to the Canteen!": Wildcats and Go-Slows, Political Subjects Reconfigured"We Are Grown-Ups": Permanent Workers as Adult Decision-Makers; "I Must Make a Sale": Contract Workers as Skilled Men; "[We] Bring More Money": Casual Workers as Exploited Labour; Joint Actions: Race and Rights; Chapter 7: "To Sit at Home and Do Nothing": Gender and the Constitutive Meaning of Work; "Sitting": Statis as Social Death; The Praxis of Providing; Gendered Anxieties: Working for Children, Working for the Future
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Chapter 8: Consuming Politics: Wal-Mart, the New Terrain of Belonging and the Endurance of AbasebenziThe Market as Nation; Labour Broking and Bulk Labour Supply; The Law and Political Subject Abasebenzi; Conclusion: Enduring Retail Worker Politics; References; Archives; Government Documents; Secondary Literature; Index
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Retail Expansion, Deskilling, and Racial ReorganizationThe Necessary "Familiarity" of White Women's Labour; Chapter 3: Rupturing Relations: Abasebenzi as Collective Political Subject; Black Women's Service Work: Discriminatory Conditions and Racist Relations; Refusing Erasure, Rupturing the Logic of Relations: Abasebenzi Emerge; CCAWUSA and Collective Labour Politics; Chapter 4: Regulating Retail: The Category "Employee" and Its Divisions; Subjects of Employment Law: "Employee" and "Labourer"; Part-Time Employment: From Responsible Motherhood to Monstrous Deprivation
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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 power of the state to interpellate subjects. These more common explanations make workers and their politics visible only as a symptom of external conditions, a response to deregulated markets or a product of state recognition. Instead - through a history of retailing as a site of nation and belonging, changing legal regimes, and articulations of race, class and gender in the constitution of political subjects from the 1930s to present-day Wal-Mart - this book presents the experiences and subjectivities of workers themselves to show that the collective political subject 'workers' (abasebenzi) is both a durable and malleable political category. From white to black women's labour, the forms of precariousness have changed within retailing in South Africa. Workers' struggles in different times have in turn resolved some dilemmas and by other turn generated new categories and conditions of precariousness, all the while explaining enduring attachments to labour politics.--
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Clerks (Retail trade)-- South Africa.
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Consumption (Economics)-- South Africa.
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Retail trade-- South Africa-- Employees.
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BUSINESS ECONOMICS-- Commerce.
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BUSINESS ECONOMICS-- Marketing-- General.
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BUSINESS ECONOMICS-- Sales Selling-- General.
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Clerks (Retail trade)
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Consumption (Economics)
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Politics and government.
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Race relations.
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Retail trade-- Employees.
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South Africa, Politics and government.
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South Africa, Race relations.
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South Africa.
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| Dewey Classification
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381.0968
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HF5429.6.S6K46 2018eb
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