Precarious Liberation : Workers, the State, and Contested Social Citizenship in Postapartheid South Africa

, by Barchiesi, Franco; Barchiesi, Franco

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ISBN: 9781438436111 | 1438436114
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Copyright: 6/1/2011

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Examines the relationship of precarious employment to state policies on citizenship and social inclusion in the context of postapartheid South Africa.

List of Illustrations	p. xi
Preface	p. xv
Note on South Africa's Racial Terminology	p. xxi
Introduction	p. 1
The Promise of Wage Labor in South Africa's Democratization	p. 1
The Nexus of Work and Social Citizenship as a Contested Field of Signification	p. 6
Work and Citizenship in Postcolonial and Postapartheid Modernity	p. 12
Conclusion and Summary of Chapters	p. 24
Redeeming Labor: From the Racial State to National Liberation	p. 27
Introduction	p. 27
"Schooling Bodies to Hard Work": Labor, Modernity and the Policy Discourse of the Racial State	p. 28
The Hopes and Disappointments of an Inclusive South Africanism	p. 28
Apartheid Social Engineering and the Coercive Enforcement of Wage Labor Discipline	p. 40
Black Workers' Struggles and the Redemption of Wage Labor, 1973-1994	p. 46
Conclusion	p. 59
The Work-Citizenship Nexus of Postapartheid South Africa	p. 63
Resistance Is Futile: The Governance Project of the ANC in the "New South Africa"	p. 63
The Changing Face of Precariousness	p. 74
Building the Patriotic Worker: The Democratic Constitutionalization of Wage Labor	p. 80
Conclusion. Disciplining Citizenship	p. 93
Contesting Commodification: Social Policy Debates in the Crisis of Waged Employment	p. 97
Introduction: Governing in the Shadow of Precariousness	p. 97
Social Policy as a Technology of Self-Responsibility	p. 98
"Laudable Citizens" and "Silly Fools": Work, Families, and the Developmental Social Welfare Idea	p. 108
"The Wage-Income Relationship Is Breaking Down": Basic Income and Contested Decommodification	p. 121
Conclusion: Precarious Employment as the New "People's Contract"?	p. 133
The Changing World of Work in Gauteng	p. 139
Introduction: Dreaming of Modernity in the "Place of Gold"	p. 139
City of Industry: The East Rand/Ekurhuleni and the Promise of Work	p. 140
Economic Restructuring and Employment Decline: The East Rand in Transition	p. 146
Johannesburg Municipal Workers and the Corporatization of Local Service Delivery	p. 151
Conclusion: Invisible Workers and the Discursive Production of Postapartheid Spaces	p. 162
Translation Troubles: Signifying Precarious Work on the Shop Floor	p. 165
Introduction	p. 165
Coping with "Something Strange": The Disappointments of Workplace Transformation in East Rand Factories	p. 167
New Canaan, New Egypt: Workplace, Community and Identity among Johannesburg Municipal Workers	p. 184
"We Feel Sort of Redundant": Surviving the Flexible Workplace	p. 190
Entrepreneurs of the Self: Individual Strategies and Life after Waged Employment	p. 198
Conclusion	p. 205
"Like a Branch on a Rotten Tree": Recovering Agency after Wage Labor	p. 209
Introduction	p. 209
Commodification and the Reconfiguration of Workers' Lives	p. 211
A Future Unlike It Used to Be: Visions of the Apocalypse and Labor's Politics of Melancholia	p. 223
The Fog of Activism: Working-Class Agency and the Uncertain Quest for Citizenship Alternatives	p. 232
Conclusion	p. 244
Conclusion	p. 249
Appendix on Methodology	p. 257
Notes	p. 261
Bibliography	p. 277
Index	p. 321
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Precarious Liberation : Workers, the State, and Contested Social Citizenship in Postapartheid South Africa

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