Recasting Workers' Power
Work and Inequality in the Shadow of the Digital Age
1st Edition
Published on 17. July 2023
Book
Hardback
200 pages
978-1-5292-1878-7 (ISBN)
Description
Much of the debate on the future of work has focused on responses to technological trends in the Global North, with little evidence on how these trends are impacting work and workers in the Global South.
Drawing on a rich selection of ethnographic studies of precarious work in Africa, this innovative book discusses how globalisation and digitalisation are drivers for structural change and examines their implications for labour. Bringing together global labour studies and inequality studies, it explores the role of digital technology in new business models, and ways in which digitalisation can be harnessed for counter mobilisation by the new worker.
Drawing on a rich selection of ethnographic studies of precarious work in Africa, this innovative book discusses how globalisation and digitalisation are drivers for structural change and examines their implications for labour. Bringing together global labour studies and inequality studies, it explores the role of digital technology in new business models, and ways in which digitalisation can be harnessed for counter mobilisation by the new worker.
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Edition
First Edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Bristol
United Kingdom
Product notice
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
4 s/w Tabellen, 16 s/w Abbildungen
4 Tables, black and white; 16 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
463 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-5292-1878-7 (9781529218787)
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Work and Inequality in the Shadow of the Digital Age
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Persons
Edward Webster (1942-2024) was Distinguished Research Professor at the Southern Centre of Inequality Studies and the founder and past director of the Society, Work and Development Institute (SWOP) at the University of the Witwatersrand. Professor Webster was the recipient of the first South African Sociological Association (SASA) lifetime award for his contribution to the academic study of the sociology of work and labour in South Africa.
Lynford Dor is a Doctoral Researcher at KU Leuven's Centre for Sociological Research (CESO) and a Research Associate at the University of Johannesburg's SARCHI Chair in Social Change (CSC).
Lynford Dor is a Doctoral Researcher at KU Leuven's Centre for Sociological Research (CESO) and a Research Associate at the University of Johannesburg's SARCHI Chair in Social Change (CSC).
Content
1. The End of Labour? Rethinking the Labour Question in the Digital Age
2. Precarious Work after Apartheid: Experimenting with Alternative Forms of Representation in the Informal Sector - with Kally Forrest
3. Neo-liberalism comes to Johannesburg: Changing the Rules of the Game
4. Divided Workers, Divided Struggles: Entrenching Dualisation and the Struggle for Equalisation in South Africa's Manufacturing Sector - Lynford Dor
5. Authoritarian Algorithmic Management: The Double-edged Sword of the Gig Economies - with Fikile Masikane
6. Crossing the Divide: Informal Workers and Trade Unions - with Carmen Ludwig
7. Global Capital, Global Labour: The Possibilities of Transnational Activism - with Carmen Ludwig
8. Changing Sources of Power and the Future of Southern Labour
2. Precarious Work after Apartheid: Experimenting with Alternative Forms of Representation in the Informal Sector - with Kally Forrest
3. Neo-liberalism comes to Johannesburg: Changing the Rules of the Game
4. Divided Workers, Divided Struggles: Entrenching Dualisation and the Struggle for Equalisation in South Africa's Manufacturing Sector - Lynford Dor
5. Authoritarian Algorithmic Management: The Double-edged Sword of the Gig Economies - with Fikile Masikane
6. Crossing the Divide: Informal Workers and Trade Unions - with Carmen Ludwig
7. Global Capital, Global Labour: The Possibilities of Transnational Activism - with Carmen Ludwig
8. Changing Sources of Power and the Future of Southern Labour