The State and 'Globalization'
The State and 'Globalization'

Author: Martin Upchurch

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-01-22

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 131772769X

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This collection of country studies explores changing relationships between the state, employers and labour in an increasingly internationalized world economy. It covers ten countries and examines the tensions and contradictions caused by neo-liberal market agendas. The authors express concern at the potentially ravaging effects of market deregulation on organized labour and present a critical account of state efforts to emulate desired models of national economic development. While the central core of the book concerns itself with changing labour relations, this is placed within the wider context of state and employer strategy, and covers issues such as labour market segmentation, welfare and taxation regimes and varying approaches to corporatism.

Africa's Informal Workers
Africa's Informal Workers

Author: Ilda Lindell

Publisher: Zed Books Ltd.

Published: 2013-04-04

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 1848138334

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Africa's Informal Workers is a vigorous examination of the informalization and casualization of work, which is changing livelihoods in Africa and beyond. Gathering cases from nine countries and cities across sub-Saharan Africa, and from a range of sectors, this volume goes beyond the usual focus on household ‘coping strategies’ and individual agency, addressing the growing number of collective organizations through which informal workers make themselves visible and articulate their demands and interests. The emerging picture is that of a highly diverse landscape of organized actors, providing grounds for tension but also opportunities for alliance. The collection examines attempts at organizing across the formal-informal work spheres, and explores the novel trend of transnational organizing by informal workers. Part of the ground-breaking Africa Now series, Africa’s Informal Workers is a timely exploration of deep, ongoing economic, political and social transformations.

Against Global Apartheid
Against Global Apartheid

Author: Patrick Bond

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 9781842773932

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In 'Against Global Apartheid', Patrick Bond reveals the extent of the economic and human damage caused by policies implemented by World Bank and the IMF in developing countries, particularly South Africa, and argues that there is another way to more socially just economic development.

A History of Inequality in South Africa, 1652-2002
A History of Inequality in South Africa, 1652-2002

Author: Sampie Terreblanche

Publisher: University of Kwazulu Natal Press

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 552

ISBN-13:

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This work is an anlaysis of economic relations in South Africa. It analyses the work of numerous historians on inequality and exploitation in South Africa around a single theme: the systematic and progressive economic exploitation of Indigenous people by settler groups. Second, the author argues that, despite South Africa's transition to democracy, its society is as unequal - if not more so - than before.