Evaluation of Labor Agency Strategy
The Case of a Strike at a South African Opencast Mine in 2012
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11229686 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John Mashayamombe (0000-0002-2317-4578, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 45 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 351-369 |
| Publication date | 2020-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Labor Studies Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0160-449X • E-ISSN: 1538-9758 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0160449x19862611 |
| OpenAlex | W2957990125 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
| References cited | 37 |
The South African mining sector has experienced labor conflicts characterized by militancy and violence. Militancy and violence was evident along South Africa’s platinum belt between 2012 and 2014. In the case of Huntington mine, about three hundred workers managed to pull a spectacular strike action when they captured mine equipment and threatened to destroy it if their demands were not met. Drawing together concepts of space, power, and agency, it is argued that the wildcat strike was a failure because power resources were not consolidated and used effectively. As a result, their demands were not met, and they lost their jobs at Huntington mine
Agency (philosophy · Labor disputes · Labor relations · Mining engineering · Mining industry · Political science · Power (physics · Social science · Sociology · Threatened species · Engineering · Labor Movements and Unions · Law · Occupational Health and Safety Research · South African History and Culture
Digital Work, Human Labour, and Development
Fieldwork Overview
Digital Taylorism
Africa’s New Digital Connectivity and Economic Change
Futures of work
Hopes and Realities of the Digital
Resilience, Reworking, and Resistance
Economic Geographies of Digital Work in Africa
The Digital Continent
The multiple geographies of constrained labour agency
Hidden transcripts of the gig economy
Spaces of Work
Forces of Labor
The Power Resources Approach
Power Resources in Theory and Practice
‘Kings of the Mine’
‘Amcu by day, workers’ committee by night’
Grounding Globalization
Organizing at the Margins
Spaces of Global Capitalism
Places of Work, Scales of Organising
Marikana
Constrained agency? Re-evaluating the geographies of labour
The unmaking and remaking of industrial relations
Igneous’ means fire from below
Accelerated mechanisation and the demise of a mass-based labour force? Platinum mines in South Africa
Marikana
The Rise and Decline of the Democratic Organizational Culture in the South African Labor Movement, 1973 to 2000
Union Solidarity under Stress
Varieties of Power in Transnational Labor Alliances
From Compounded to Fragmented Labour
From a Geography of Labor to a Labor Geography
Class, Agency and Resistance in the Old Industrial City
Global labour studies
Agency by exit
Social justice and the city
Worker Centers
Workers as Geographical Actors
Managing the 1987 Mine Workers' Strike
Labour Geography
Re-embedding agency at the workplace scale
Marikana
The Material Basis of Worker Subjectivity
Working-Class Power, Capitalist-Class Interests, and Class Compromise
| Unique citing works | 11 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,83 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2023 (4) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 11 |