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ISBN-13
9781108831802
Book Title
Privileged Precariat
ISBN
9781108831802
Subject Area
Business & Economics, History
Publication Name
Privileged Precariat : White Workers and South Africa's Long Transition to Majority Rule
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Item Length
6.3 in
Subject
Africa / General, Economics / General
Publication Year
2021
Series
The International African Library
Type
Textbook
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Item Height
1 in
Author
Danelle Van Zyl-Hermann
Item Weight
23.3 Oz
Item Width
9.3 in
Number of Pages
290 Pages

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White workers occupied a unique social position in apartheid-era South Africa. Shielded from black labour competition in exchange for support for the white minority regime, their race-based status effectively concealed their class-based vulnerability. Centred on this entanglement of race and class, Privileged Precariat examines how South Africa's white workers experienced the dismantling of the racial state and the establishment of black majority rule. Starting from the 1970s, it shows how apartheid reforms constituted the withdrawal of state support for working-class whiteness, sending workers in search of new ways to safeguard their interests in a rapidly changing world. Danelle van Zyl-Hermann tracks the shifting strategies of the blue-collar Mineworkers' Union, culminating in its reinvention, by the 2010s, as the Solidarity Movement, a social movement appealing to cultural nationalism. Integrating unique historical and ethnographic evidence with global debates, Privileged Precariat offers a chronological and interpretative rethinking of South Africa's recent past and contributes new insights from the Global South to debates on race and class in the era of neoliberalism.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
ISBN-10
110883180x
ISBN-13
9781108831802
eBay Product ID (ePID)
5050092020

Product Key Features

Number of Pages
290 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Privileged Precariat : White Workers and South Africa's Long Transition to Majority Rule
Publication Year
2021
Subject
Africa / General, Economics / General
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Business & Economics, History
Author
Danelle Van Zyl-Hermann
Series
The International African Library
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
23.3 Oz
Item Length
6.3 in
Item Width
9.3 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2020-046743
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
'An important contribution to both historical and social science scholarship on South Africa, this account of white labour politics, with particular emphasis on Afrikaners [traces the trajectory of white trade unions from the militantly anti-capitalist but racially exclusivist battles of the early 20th Century, through an ambiguously privileged situation under apartheid, to recent attempts to adjust to majority rule. The book shows that white society was never fully unitary, but always reflected class divisions. This outstanding work combines innovative archival scholarship with the author's remarkable field-work study on the Solidarity movement of recent years.' Jonathan Hyslop, Colgate University and University of Pretoria
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
305.56208909068
Lc Classification Number
Hd8801
Table of Content
Introduction: The Return of the White Working Class; Part I: White Workers and the Racial State; 1. Privileged Race, Precarious Class: White Labour from the Mineral Revolution to the 'Golden Age'; 2. From Sweetheart to 'Frankenstein': The NP's Changing Stance Towards White Labour Amid the Crisis of the 1970s; 3. Race and Rights at the Rock-Face of Change: White Organised Labour and the Wiehahn Reforms; Part II: White Workers and Civil Society Mobilisation; 4. From Trade Union to Social Movement: The MWU/Solidarity's Formation of a Post-Apartheid Social Alliance; 5. An 'Alternative Government': The Solidarity Movement's Contemporary Strategies; 6. Discursive Labour and Strategic Contradiction: Managing the Working-Class Roots of a Declassed Organisation; 7. 'Guys Like Us Are Left To Our Own Mercy': Counternarratives, Ambivalence and the Pressures of Racial Gatekeeping Among Solidarity's Blue-Collar Members; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

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