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Author Barchiesi, Franco

Title Precarious liberation : workers, the state, and contested social citizenship in postapartheid South Africa / Franco Barchiesi
Published Albany : State University of New York Press ; Scottsville, South Africa : University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, ©2011

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Description 1 online resource : maps
Series SUNY series in global modernity
SUNY series in global modernity
Contents 1. Redeeming labor: from the racial state to national liberation -- 2. The work-citizenship nexus of postapartheid South Africa -- 3. Contesting commodification: social policy debates in the crisis of waged employment -- 4. The changing world of work in Gauteng -- 5. Translation troubles: signifying precarious work on the shop floor -- 6. "Like a branch on a rotten tree": recovering agency after wage labor
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Working class -- South Africa
Wages -- South Africa
Democratization -- South Africa
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
Democratization
Politics and government
Wages
Working class
SUBJECT South Africa -- Politics and government -- 1994- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94003600
Subject South Africa
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781461905998
1461905990
1438436122
9781438436128