COSATU'S Contested Legacy: South African Trade Unions in the Second Decade of Democracy

✍ Scribed by Sakhela Buhlungu and Malehoko Tshoaedi Eds.

Publisher: Brill
Year: 2013
Tongue: English
Leaves: 330
Series: Afrika-Studiecentrum Series
Category: Library

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✦ Table of Contents

COSATU’S Contested Legacy......Page 3
Copyright......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
List of tables......Page 7
List of figures......Page 9
Abbreviations and acronyms......Page 10
Preface......Page 13
1. A contested legacy: organisational and political challenges facing COSATU......Page 17
2. The experience of conducting a longitudinal study: the COSATU Workers’ Survey 2008......Page 48
3. COSATU, oligarchy and the consolidation of democracy in an African context......Page 72
4. Making sense of unionised workers’ political attitudes: the (un)representation of women’s voices in COSATU......Page 106
5. The sociology of upward social mobility among COSATU shop stewards......Page 126
6. COSATU, the ‘2010 Class Project’ and the contest for ‘the soul’ of the ANC......Page 148
7. ‘What would you do if the government fails to deliver?’: COSATU members’ attitudes towards service delivery......Page 163
8. COSATU’s influence on policy-making in post-apartheid South Africa: fact and fiction......Page 183
9. COSATU members and strike violence: what we learn from quantitative and qualitative data......Page 202
10. COSATU and internal migrant workers: old fault lines, new dilemmas......Page 228
11. COSATU’s attitudes and policies towards external migrants......Page 244
12. The trade union movement and the Tripartite Alliance: a tangled history......Page 275
Taking democracy seriously: COSATU Worker’s Survey data set 1994, 1998, 2004 and 2008......Page 299
Contributors......Page 321
Index......Page 325

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