Expectations of Paternalism
Welfare, Corporate Responsibility, and HIV at South Africa's Mines
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4436736 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Dinah Rajak (0000-0002-6605-7611, University of Sussex, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 115 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 33-59 |
| Publication date | 2016-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | South Atlantic Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0038-2876 • E-ISSN: 1527-8026 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/00382876-3424742 |
| OpenAlex | W1792083454 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 27 |
This article focuses on HIV/AIDS management at Anglo American, the world's third-biggest mining company, the largest private-sector employer in South Africa and across the continent, and the first company to provide antiretroviral therapy (ART) "free of charge" to its workforce in a context of little or no access to state health care. Through the lens of HIV management, the article considers what happens when human care and welfare is refracted through the prism of corporate managerialism, shareholder value, and, more immediately, the relationship between workers and capital. It suggests that, as welfare is conflated with the maintenance of human capital, care becomes a conduit for corporate control and containment giving new force to old paternalistic regimes in the postapartheid workplace. Here the discourse of shareholder value and (human) capital efficiency is fused with moralities of social responsibility in this new dispensation of corporate compassion. The result is the emergence of a vanguard of ART recipients, employees who depend on their corporate employers not only for their livelihood but for their very survival and thus are divided from society outside the workplace and from their own dependents. Their liminality comes to embody the disjuncture between corporate responsibility and state welfare
Business · Corporate governance · Corporate social responsibility · Paternalism · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Shareholder · Shareholder value · Sociology · Welfare · Welfare state · Workforce · Finance · Human Rights and Development · Law · Mining and Resource Management · South African History and Culture
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Producing permanence
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,83 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2026 (7) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |