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Recasting workers' power : work and inequality in the shadow of the digital age / Edward Webster ; with Lynford Dor.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Webster, Edward, 1942-2024, author.
- Series:
- Policy Press scholarship online.
- Policy Press scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Industrial relations--Effect of technological innovations on--Africa.
- Industrial relations.
- Wages--Effect of technological innovations on--Africa.
- Wages.
- Equality--Africa.
- Equality.
- Working class--Africa--Social conditions.
- Working class.
- Industrial relations--Africa.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiv, 186 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Bristol : Bristol University Press, 2023.
- Summary:
- Drawing on ethnographic studies of precarious work in Africa, this innovative book discusses their implications for labour of how globalisation and digitalisation are drivers for structural change. It explores the role of digital technology in new business models, and ways in which digitalization can be harnessed for counter mobilisation.
- Contents:
- Front Matter
- Contents
- List of Figures and Tables
- List of Abbreviations
- Preface
- The End of Labour? Rethinking the Labour Question in the Digital Age
- Precarious Work after Apartheid: Experimenting with Alternative Forms of Representation in the Informal Sector
- Neo-liberalism Comes to Johannesburg: Changing the Rules of the Game
- Divided Workers, Divided Struggles: Entrenching Dualisation and the Struggle for Equalisation in South Africa's Manufacturing Sector
- Authoritarian Algorithmic Management: The Double-edged Sword of the Gig Economies
- Crossing the Divide: Informal Workers and Trade Unions
- Global Capital, Global Labour: The Possibilities of Transnational Activism
- Changing Sources of Power and the Future of Southern Labour
- Index
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 23 Jan 2024).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-5292-1882-9
- 1-5292-1881-0
- OCLC:
- 1390728514
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