[图书][B] Policy, politics and poverty in South Africa

J Seekings, N Nattrass - 2015 - books.google.com
Seekings and Nattrass explain why poverty persisted in South Africa after the transition to
democracy in 1994. The book examines how public policies both mitigated and reproduced …

[图书][B] Global Diffusion of Protest. Riding the protest wave in the neoliberal crisis

D Della Porta - 2017 - library.oapen.org
Recent years have seen a new development in the growth and spread of popular protest:
protests that began as local, homogeneous events-such as Occupy Wall Street or the …

The return of the labour process: race, skill and technology in South African labour studies

B Kenny, E Webster - Work in the Global Economy, 2021 - bristoluniversitypressdigital.com
From its beginnings, the sociology of work in South Africa has been preoccupied with three
enduring themes: skill/deskilling, racism in the workplace, and Fordism/racial Fordism. With …

[图书][B] Civil strife against local governance: Dynamics of community protests in contemporary South Africa

S Matebesi - 2017 - books.google.com
Hardly a day goes by without South Africans going on a rampage over the provision of basic
municipal services such as water, electricity, sanitation and other municipal obligations. This …

The decline of the Anti-Privatisation Forum in the midst of South Africa's 'rebellion of the poor'

C Runciman - Current sociology, 2015 - journals.sagepub.com
Analysing the processes of social movement abeyance is a much under-studied and under-
theorised area of social movement studies. This article examines the collapse of the once …

Transformative resistance: The role of labour and trade unions in alternatives to privatization

H Wainwright - Alternatives to Privatization, 2012 - taylorfrancis.com
Proponents of privatization have presumed that there are no actors within the public sector
able to drive improvement or change. The idea that public sector workers and their trade …

Mobilising and organising in precarious times: Analysing contemporary collective action in South Africa

C Runciman - International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, 2016 - emerald.com
Purpose The paper argues that the field of social movement studies has been dominated by
a movement organisation-centric approach. This organisational bias has constrained the …

[图书][B] Southern Resistance in Critical Perspective: The Politics of Protest in South Africa's Contentious Democracy

M Paret, C Runciman, L Sinwell - 2017 - books.google.com
From the Arab Uprising, to anti-austerity protests in Europe and the US Occupy Movement,
to uprisings in Brazil and Turkey, resistance from below is flourishing. Whereas analysts …

Citizenship and inequality in post-apartheid South Africa: Contours and collective responses

C Runciman - Understanding inequality: Social costs and benefits, 2016 - Springer
Abstract When the African National Congress (ANC) was elected in the country's first ever
one person, one vote election in 1994 the newly elected President Nelson Mandela set out a …

Changing forms of power and municipal worker resistance in johannesburg

C Ludwig, E Webster - Southern Resistance in Critical Perspective, 2017 - taylorfrancis.com
This chapter examines how black workers in the Johannesburg municipality struggled to
build union power during the apartheid and post-apartheid periods. It develops an analytical …