South Africa's Political Crisis : Unfinished Liberation and Fractured Class Struggles /: Unfinished Liberation and Fractured Class Struggles. (2015)
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- Book
- Title:
- South Africa's Political Crisis : Unfinished Liberation and Fractured Class Struggles /: Unfinished Liberation and Fractured Class Struggles. (2015)
- Main Title:
- South Africa's Political Crisis : Unfinished Liberation and Fractured Class Struggles
- Further Information:
- Note: Alexander Beresford.
- Authors:
- Beresford, Alexander, 1984-
- Contents:
- Acknowledgements; PART I: LIBERATION'S DREAM DEFERRED; 1. A Dream Deferred: The Transition to Democracy; 2. The Awkward Embrace of Neoliberalism; 3. Towards a Post-nationalist Era?; 4. A Brief History of the Alliance; 5. The Implicit Ideological Compromise of the Alliance; 6. Whither the Alliance?; 7. Summary of the Argument; 8. Unpacking the NUMSA Moment; 9. Organisational Dilemmas and the Great Transition from Below; 10. Exhausted or Regenerative Nationalism?; PART II: RESPONSES TO THE NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME (NDP); 11. Responses to the Militant Strike Wave; 12. The Marikana Massacre: the Final Straw?; 13. Ideological Blurring and the Nationalist-populist Backlash; 14. Conclusion: Fragmented Labour Struggles and Defensive Nationalism; PART III: INTERNECINE FACTIONALISM; 15. The Interpenetration of Union and ANC Political Struggles; 16. Patronage Politics in the Unions?; 17. Coups, Purges and Fractures; 18. Violence; 19. Corruption Allegations; 20. Sexual Misconduct Allegations; 21. The Blurred Lines of Patronage Politics; 22. Conclusion: A Labour Movement at War with Itself; PART IV: CLASS FORMATION AND THE POLITICS OF SOCIAL MOBILITY; 23. Class Formation and the Mobility Divide; 24. Competing Class Interests within Union Structures; 25. The Double-edged Sword of Upward mobility: The Positive Side; 26. The Double-edged Sword of Upward mobility: The Negative Side; 27. Conclusion: Understanding the 'Transition from Below'; PART V: UNION DEMOCRACY, SOCIAL MOBILITY ANDAcknowledgements; PART I: LIBERATION'S DREAM DEFERRED; 1. A Dream Deferred: The Transition to Democracy; 2. The Awkward Embrace of Neoliberalism; 3. Towards a Post-nationalist Era?; 4. A Brief History of the Alliance; 5. The Implicit Ideological Compromise of the Alliance; 6. Whither the Alliance?; 7. Summary of the Argument; 8. Unpacking the NUMSA Moment; 9. Organisational Dilemmas and the Great Transition from Below; 10. Exhausted or Regenerative Nationalism?; PART II: RESPONSES TO THE NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME (NDP); 11. Responses to the Militant Strike Wave; 12. The Marikana Massacre: the Final Straw?; 13. Ideological Blurring and the Nationalist-populist Backlash; 14. Conclusion: Fragmented Labour Struggles and Defensive Nationalism; PART III: INTERNECINE FACTIONALISM; 15. The Interpenetration of Union and ANC Political Struggles; 16. Patronage Politics in the Unions?; 17. Coups, Purges and Fractures; 18. Violence; 19. Corruption Allegations; 20. Sexual Misconduct Allegations; 21. The Blurred Lines of Patronage Politics; 22. Conclusion: A Labour Movement at War with Itself; PART IV: CLASS FORMATION AND THE POLITICS OF SOCIAL MOBILITY; 23. Class Formation and the Mobility Divide; 24. Competing Class Interests within Union Structures; 25. The Double-edged Sword of Upward mobility: The Positive Side; 26. The Double-edged Sword of Upward mobility: The Negative Side; 27. Conclusion: Understanding the 'Transition from Below'; PART V: UNION DEMOCRACY, SOCIAL MOBILITY AND STIFLED MILITANCY; 28. Democracy at the Grassroots?; 29. Social Mobility as a Source of Union Decline?; 30. The Loss of a Collective Mobilising Identity; 31. Conclusion: Mobilise or Gradually Wilt; PART VI. EXHAUSTED OR REGENERATIVE NATIONALISM?; 32. The Symbolic Political Capital of ANC Nationalism; 33. The Limits of Symbolic Political Capital; 34. The Broad Reach of Nationalism; 35. Workers' Relationships with the Post-apartheid State: Workers' Rights; 36. Workers' Relationships with the Post-apartheid State: Service Delivery; 37. Workers' Relationships with the Post-apartheid State: Social Welfare; 38. No Ordinary Party; 39. Conclusion; PART VII: CONCLUSION: FRAGMENTED LABOUR STRUGGLES AND THE UNFINISHED PROJECT OF LIBERATION; Bibliography; Index … (more)
- Publisher Details:
- Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication Date:
- 2015
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (192 pages)
- Subjects:
- 331.880968
Labor movement -- South Africa
Labor unions -- Political activity -- South Africa
Equality -- South Africa
Political Ideologies/Democracy
Political Process/Political Advocacy
Political Freedom & Security/Civil Rights
Pressure groups & lobbying
Demonstrations & protest movements
Economic history
Equality
Labor movement
Labor unions -- Political activity
Politics and government
Social conditions
South Africa -- Economic conditions -- 1991-
South Africa -- Social conditions -- 1994-
South Africa -- Politics and government -- 1994-
South Africa
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- English
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- 9781137436610
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