Beyond the Apartheid Workplace - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Beyond the Apartheid Workplace write by Eddie Webster. This book was released on 2005. Beyond the Apartheid Workplace available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Has the apartheid workplace changed over the past ten years of democracy in South Africa? In order to answer this question, the contributors of this book studied seventeen different workplaces, including BMW, a state hospital, footwear sweatshops and the wine farming industry. The editors broaden the definition of work to cover studies of the informal economy, including street traders, homeworkers and small rural enterprises. Beyond the Apartheid Workplace shows how South Africa's triple transition-towards political democracy, economic liberalization and post-colonial transformation-has generated contradictory pressures at workplace levels. A wide range of managerial strategies and union responses are identified, demonstrating both continuities and discontinuities with past practices. These studies reveal a growing differentiation within the world of work between stable, formal-sector work, casualized and outsourced work, and informal work where people struggle to make a living on the margins of the formal economy. The majority of workplaces are marked by the persistence and reconfiguration of the apartheid legacy. Deepening poverty and exclusion have been generated among great numbers of workers and their dependents.
Equality in the Workplace
Equality in the Workplace - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Equality in the Workplace write by Ockert Dupper. This book was released on 2009. Equality in the Workplace available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Management Studies in South Africa
Management Studies in South Africa - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Management Studies in South Africa write by Shaun Ruggunan. This book was released on 2018-09-20. Management Studies in South Africa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book examines the trajectory of management studies in South Africa during the apartheid and post-apartheid periods. The unique political journey of South Africa provides a distinctive context in which to explore the progression of management studies within a developing state. The authors consider how Apartheid has configured the discipline of management studies to reflect certain racial, institutional and gendered trends, and analyse the extent to which these trends have adapted or changed in post-Apartheid times. Appealing to management scholars and professionals, this book provides implications for policy and practice within the South African higher education sector, and presents avenues for future research.
Beyond the Boycott
Beyond the Boycott - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Beyond the Boycott write by Gay W. Seidman. This book was released on 2007-09-13. Beyond the Boycott available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. As the world economy becomes increasingly integrated, companies can shift production to wherever wages are lowest and unions weakest. How can workers defend their rights in an era of mobile capital? With national governments forced to compete for foreign investment by rolling back legal protections for workers, fair trade advocates are enlisting consumers to put market pressure on companies to treat their workers fairly. In Beyond the Boycott, sociologist Gay Seidman asks whether this non-governmental approach can reverse the "race to the bottom" in global labor standards. Beyond the Boycott examines three campaigns in which activists successfully used the threat of a consumer boycott to pressure companies to accept voluntary codes of conduct and independent monitoring of work sites. The voluntary Sullivan Code required American corporations operating in apartheid-era South Africa to improve treatment of their workers; in India, the Rugmark inspection team provides 'social labels' for handknotted carpets made without child labor; and in Guatemala, COVERCO monitors conditions in factories producing clothing under contract for major American brands. Seidman compares these cases to explore the ingredients of successful campaigns, as well as the inherent limitations facing voluntary monitoring schemes. Despite activists' emphasis on educating individual consumers to support ethical companies, Seidman finds that, in practice, they have been most successful when they mobilized institutions—such as universities, churches, and shareholder organizations. Moreover, although activists tend to dismiss states' capabilities, all three cases involved governmental threats of trade sanctions against companies and countries with poor labor records. Finally, Seidman points to an intractable difficulty of independent workplace monitoring: since consumers rarely distinguish between monitoring schemes and labels, companies can hand pick monitoring organizations, selecting those with the lowest standards for working conditions and the least aggressive inspections. Transnational consumer movements can increase the bargaining power of the global workforce, Seidman argues, but they cannot replace national governments or local campaigns to expand the meaning of citizenship. As trade and capital move across borders in growing volume and with greater speed, civil society and human rights movements are also becoming more global. Highly original and thought-provoking, Beyond the Boycott vividly depicts the contemporary movement to humanize globalization—its present and its possible future. A Volume in the American Sociological Association's Rose Series in Sociology
Transition from Below
Transition from Below - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Transition from Below write by Karl Von Holdt. This book was released on 2003. Transition from Below available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Drawing on interviews of workers and unionists of the Highveld Steel company, traces the transition from the apartheid regime to post-colonialism and democracy. Focuses on social movement unionism, popular alliances, and ungovernability in the community and the workplace.
