South Africa in Transition
Scenarios Facing Organized Labor
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2371595 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Franco Barchiesi (0000-0001-5620-7690, University of the Witwatersrand, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1996 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 79-112 |
| Publication date | 1996-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Critical Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0896-9205 • E-ISSN: 1569-1632 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/089692059602200305 |
| OpenAlex | W1981201132 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 32 |
The labor movement was one of the main actors in popular resistance to apartheid in South Africa. A militant working class, radicalized by a deeply entrenched socialist discourse and organized through practices stressing grassroots self-organization decisively shaped the transition to democracy. In post-apartheid South Africa organized labor faces a new set of challenges. The contest over labor's role in the economic reconstruction and the challenges of a tripartite industrial relations system are confronting trade unions with a new dilemma. They have to remain responsive to grassroots militancy while, at the same time, channeling it in a development effort that emphasizes social pacts and non-adversarialism. This paper analyzes these issues, emphasizing the social processes of the construction of militancy at the workplace as crucial to the analysis of unions in transition
CONTEST · Democracy · Dilemma · Grassroots · Industrial democracy · Labor history · Labor relations · Militant · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Social movement · Sociology · Working class · Labor Movements and Unions · Law · Legal Issues in South Africa · South African History and Culture
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Capitalist development and democracy
Class, Community and Conflict
Sustainable Democracy
Democracy and the Market
The Development of Welfare States in Europe and America
Capitalist Development and Democracy
Manufacturing Militance
The Politics of Race, Class and Nationalism in Twentieth Century South Africa
Industrial strategy and economic development in South Africa
Labour movements or popular struggles in Africa
Breaking the Chains
South Africa
Workplace Industrial Relations and the Global Challenge
To Craft Democracies
Labor Movements in Transitions to Democracy
Power, Flexibility, and the Breakdown of Centralized Wage Bargaining
Striking Back
South Africa's Economic Crisis
Uneven capitalist development
From Labour History to the History of Industrial Relations
Workers, Structural Adjustment, and Concertación Social in Latin America
The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism
Challenging Transition Theory
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| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,08 |
| Citation span | 2000 - 2022 (23) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |