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Title Crossing the divide : precarious work and the future of labour / edited by Edward Webster, Akua O. Britwum and Sharit Bhowmik
Published Pietermaritzburg : University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2017

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Description 1 online resource (278 pages)
Contents Preface; Abbreviations; 1 A Conceptual and Theoretical Introduction; PART I Agricultural Aspects; 2 Organising Casual Workers on an Oil Palm Plantation in Ghana; 3 Ethnicity and Class: Issues in Organising Tea Plantation Workers in India; 4 From Flexible Work to Mass Uprising: The Western Cape Farm Workers' Struggle; 5 Organising Farm Workers in Gauteng: Economic Upgrading and Social Downgrading; PART II Urban Considerations; 6 Implications of Private Participationin Solid Waste Management for Collective Organisation in Accra, Ghana
7 Hybrid Organisations, Complex Politics: When Unions Form Cooperatives8 Sword of Justice or Defender of Vested Interest? The Struggles of Johannesburg's Municipal Workers; 9 Dickensian England in Twenty-first-century Delhi -- Without Great Expectations: Informal Labour Organising in the Manufacturing Sector; 10 Organising Vulnerable Home-based Workers in India; 11 Collective Agency and Organising among Domestic Workers in Ghana; Contributors; Index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Precarious employment.
Flextime -- Law and legislation.
Temporary employment -- Law and legislation.
Labor.
Electronic books.
Work
labor.
e-books.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations.
Flextime -- Law and legislation
Labor
Precarious employment
Temporary employment -- Law and legislation
Form Electronic book
Author Webster, Eddie, editor.
Britwum, Akua O., editor.
Bhowmik, Sharit, 1948-2016, editor.
ISBN 9781869143541
186914354X