Recasting Workers' Power: Work and Inequality in the Shadow of the Digital Age

Edward Webster; Lynford Dor

doi:10.46692/9781529218817

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.

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Work and Inequality in the Shadow of the Digital Age

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Frontmatter
pp i-ii

Contents
pp iii-iii

List of Figures and Tables
pp iv-iv

List of Abbreviations
pp v-viii

Preface
pp ix-xiv

1 - The End of Labour? Rethinking the Labour Question in the Digital Age
pp 1-29

2 - Precarious Work after Apartheid: Experimenting with Alternative Forms of Representation in the Informal Sector
pp 30-54

3 - Neo-liberalism Comes to Johannesburg: Changing the Rules of the Game
pp 55-71

4 - Divided Workers, Divided Struggles: Entrenching Dualisation and the Struggle for Equalisation in South Africa's Manufacturing Sector
pp 72-100

5 - Authoritarian Algorithmic Management: The Double-edged Sword of the Gig Economies
pp 101-124

6 - Crossing the Divide: Informal Workers and Trade Unions
pp 125-143

7 - Global Capital, Global Labour: The Possibilities of Transnational Activism
pp 144-157

8 - Changing Sources of Power and the Future of Southern Labour
pp 158-177

Index
pp 178-186

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