Beschreibung

Beschreibung / Abstract

Inhaltsverzeichnis

• BEGINN
• Table of Contents
• Acknowledgements
• 1 Introduction
• 1.1 Central Research Question and Aims of Research
• 1.2 Overview of the Book
• 2 Theoretical Framework: Solidarity and Trade Union Power Resources
• 2.1 Scales of Power: Conceptualising Workers†™ Power Resources
• 2.2 Power through Organisation
• 2.3 The Power to Disrupt Within and Outside the Workplace
• 2.4 Society as an Ally
• 2.5 The Dual Character of Institutional Power
• 2.6 Trade Union Strategies between Inclusive and Exclusive Solidarity
• 2.7 Interim Conclusion and Stages of Inquiry
• 3 Methodology and Research Design
• 3.1 Setting the Stage: The Selection of the Three Research Sites
• 3.2 Participant Observation and Problem-centred Interviews
• 3.3 Analysing the Field with the Extended Case Method
• 3.4 Conducting Research in a Contested Field
• 4 From Apartheid to Post-Apartheid: Labour in a Contested Terrain
• 4.1 Contesting the Labour Regime, Building Associational Power: A Brief History of the South African Labour Movement
• 4.2 From the Freedom Charter to GEAR: Conflicts within the Alliance on Macroeconomic Policy
• 4.3 Privatising Local Government: The Legislative Framework
• 4.4 The Fragmentation of the South African Labour Market: Core, Non-core, Periphery
• 4.5 The South African Labour Movement at a Crossroads
• 5 Privatisation and the Commodification of Public Services in Johannesburg and Cape Town
• 5.1 The Post-Apartheid Challenge: Restructuring Johannesburg
• 5.2 Hollowing out the Local State: iGoli 2002
• 5.3 The SAMWU Response to iGoli 2002
• 5.4 Restructuring and Privatisation in Cape Town
• 5.5 The SAMWU Response to Privatisation
• 6 A Partial Inclusive Union Strategy: Organising a Fragmented Municipal Workforce in Johannesburg
• 6.1 Facing the Divide: The increasing Fragmentation of the Workforce in Pikitup
• 6.2 Contesting what a Labour Broker is: The Triangular Employment Relationship in Pikitup
• 6.3 The Manufacturing of Insecurity in the Workplace
• 6.4 The Pikitup Strike of 2011
• 6.5 Failing Interactions between Contract Workers and SAMWU
• 6.6 A Sense of Belonging: CWP Workers Seeking Union Representation
• 6.7 Interim Conclusion: A Partial Inclusive Strategy of Union Representation
• 7 An Inclusive Union Strategy: Organising a Fragmented Municipal Workforce in Cape Town
• 7.1 Confronting the Effects of Privatisation in Cape Town
• 7.2 Experiences in Organising Workers in Private Waste Companies
• 7.3 The Campaign against Labour Broking in Cape Town
• 7.4 An Uphill Battle: Taking up the Struggle of EPWP Workers
• 7.5 Mobilising Power Resources: Extending the Core
• 7.6 Logistical Power and the Contested Post-Apartheid Order
• 7.7 Discursive Power and the Legitimacy of Claims
• 7.8 Labour and Community Alliances in Cape Town
• 7.9 Interim Conclusion: An Inclusive Union Strategy
• 8 An Exclusive Union Strategy: Organising a Fragmented Municipal Workforce in Ekurhuleni
• 8.1 Conditions and Effects of Outsourcing in the Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality
• 8.2 “SAMWU we need our jobs back†: Cleaning Workers in Ekurhuleni
• 8.3 Alternative Forms of Organisation: The Casual Workers Advice Office in Germiston
• 8.4 Exclusive Solidarity: SAMWU†™s Strategy towards Non-core Workers
• 9 Conclusion
• Figures
• Tables
• Abbreviations
• References
• Index