Precarious Liberation cover art

Precarious Liberation

Workers, the State, and Contested Social Citizenship in Postapartheid South Africa

Preview
LIMITED TIME OFFER

3 months free
Try for £0.00
£8.99/mo thereafter. Renews automatically. Terms apply. Offer ends 31 July 2025 at 23:59 GMT.
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
Premium Plus auto-renews for £8.99/mo after 3 months. Cancel monthly.

Precarious Liberation

By: Franco Barchiesi
Narrated by: Saul Reichlin
Try for £0.00

£8.99/mo after 3 months. Offer ends 31 July 2025 23:59 GMT. Cancel monthly.

Buy Now for £21.99

Buy Now for £21.99

Confirm Purchase
Pay using card ending in
By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and authorise Audible to charge your designated card or any other card on file. Please see our Privacy Notice, Cookies Notice and Interest-based Ads Notice.
Cancel

About this listen

Millions of Black South African workers struggled against apartheid to redeem employment and production from a history of abuse, insecurity, and racial despotism. Almost two decades later, however, the prospects of a dignified life of wage-earning work remain unattainable for most South Africans.

Through extensive archival and ethnographic research, Franco Barchiesi documents and interrogates this important dilemma in the country's democratic transition: Economic participation has gained centrality in the government's definition of virtuous citizenship, and yet for most workers, employment remains an elusive and insecure experience. In a context of market liberalization and persistent social and racial inequalities, as jobs in South Africa become increasingly flexible, fragmented, and unprotected, they depart from the promise of work with dignity and citizenship rights that once inspired opposition to apartheid. Barchiesi traces how the employment crisis and the responses of workers to it challenge the state's normative imagination of work, and raise decisive questions for the social foundations and prospects of South Africa's democratic experiment.

©2011 State University of New York (P)2021 Audible, Inc.
Labour & Industrial Relations Politics & Government Africa Employment Socialism Capitalism

Listeners also enjoyed...

Neoliberalism, Globalization, Income Inequality, Poverty and Resistance cover art
The Global Police State cover art
Democracy and Delusion cover art
Democracy May Not Exist, but We'll Miss It When It's Gone cover art
A History of Britain cover art
The Death of the Left cover art
Make Bosses Pay cover art
Unprecedented? cover art
Golden Gulag cover art
Economic Dignity cover art
The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Race, Ethnicity, and Nationalism cover art
What Might Sensible and Appropriate UK Immigration Policy Look Like?: An Elephant Policy Centre Focus Report cover art
Friendly Fascism cover art
Humanizing the Economy cover art
Masters of the Universe cover art
Socialism (2nd Edition) cover art
No reviews yet