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Retail Worker Politics, Race and Consumption in South Africa - Shelved in the Service Economy (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
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Retail Worker Politics, Race and Consumption in South Africa - Shelved in the Service Economy (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
Series: Rethinking International Development series
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This book argues that we need to focus attention on the ways that
workers themselves have invested subjectively in what it means to
be a worker. By doing so, we gain an explanation that moves us
beyond the economic decisions made by actors, the institutional
constraints faced by trade unions, or the power of the state to
interpellate subjects. These more common explanations make workers
and their politics visible only as a symptom of external
conditions, a response to deregulated markets or a product of state
recognition. Instead - through a history of retailing as a site of
nation and belonging, changing legal regimes, and articulations of
race, class and gender in the constitution of political subjects
from the 1930s to present-day Wal-Mart - this book presents the
experiences and subjectivities of workers themselves to show that
the collective political subject 'workers' (abasebenzi) is both a
durable and malleable political category. From white to black
women's labour, the forms of precariousness have changed within
retailing in South Africa. Workers' struggles in different times
have in turn resolved some dilemmas and by other turn generated new
categories and conditions of precariousness, all the while
explaining enduring attachments to labour politics.
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