Mothers, Extraordinary Labor, and Amacasual
Law and Politics of Nonstandard Employment in the South African Retail Sector
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6090244 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Bridget Kenny (0000-0002-2283-356X) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 282-306 |
| Publication date | 2009-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Law & Policy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0265-8240 • E-ISSN: 1467-9930 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1467-9930.2009.00298.x |
| OpenAlex | W2122674073 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 34 |
This article examines changing social meaning embodying legal categories of nonstandard employment within South African retailing between the 1950s and the postapartheid period. Using archival and interview material, the article shows how trade unions constructed part‐time and casual employment through gendered, class, and racial meanings to produce two very different legal categories. Black workers’ rights claims in the 1980s developed within these changing socio‐legal parameters. The image of the full‐time permanent worker became political agent, and in the postapartheid period, increasing numbers of casual workers became marginalized from the union. The relationship between rights and regulation gives us a more complex way of understanding worker politics
Casual · Labour law · Meaning (existential · Period (music · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Employment and Welfare Studies · Gender Studies · International Labor and Employment Law · Labor Movements and Unions · Law
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Rights at work
Out To Work: A History of Wage-Earning Women in the United States
Global Trends in Flexible Labour
Manufacturing Militance
Temporary Work
Who Pays for the Kids
Volkskapitalisme
Out to Work
Global Feminization Through Flexible Labor
Race, Class and the Changing Division of Labour under Apartheid
Youth at Work
Industrialisation and trade union organisation in South Africa, 1924–55
Casual Employment in Australia and Temporary Employment in Europe
Dismantling flexibility
Workers, War, and the Origins of Apartheid
Capital, State and White Labour in South Africa, 1900-1960
Yours for the Union
Casualties
Citizen and Subject
Hierarchies, Jobs, Bodies
Servicing Modernity
From Casual Work to Economic Security
Temporary Work in Transnational Labor Regulation
Introduction to the Special Issue on Pathways from Casual Work to Economic Security
Economic Insecurity and Global Casualisation
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.25 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2016 (3) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |