Retail Worker Politics, Race and Consumption in South Africa

Name: Retail Worker Politics, Race and Consumption in South Africa
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Retail Worker Politics, Race and Consumption in South Africa

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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 womens 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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