Labour In South Africa Research Articles

The industrial Panopticon: Mining and the medical construction of migrant African labour in South Africa, 1900–1950

Derived from a marxist/liberal humanist view of power, conventional critiques of the South African gold mining industry's medical apparatus see only its power to repress and negate the true bodily attributes and authentic person of the African mine worker. In so doing, they ignore the productive capacity of medical practice as a manifestation of what Foucault termed “disciplinary” power, by which the human body is manufactured and made manageable as an object of medical knowledge and industrial utilization. Accordingly, this paper offers just such a Foucaultian reading of South African mining medicine to demonstrate how it has operated to fabricate the bodies of African miners as visible objects possessed of distinct attributes that provoked particular strategies for their surveillance in health and disease.

Book Review: Review Article: Slavery in the Western Hemisphere and South Africa: Legacy of European Colonialism: Slavery and the Rise of the Atlantic System, Slavery in South Africa: Captive Labor on the Dutch Frontier, Breaking the Chains: Slavery and its Legacy in the Nineteenth-Century Cape Colony, Breaking the Chains: Labour in South Africa in the 1970s and 1980s

Book Review: Review Article: Slavery in the Western Hemisphere and South Africa: Legacy of European Colonialism: Slavery and the Rise of the Atlantic System, Slavery in South Africa: Captive Labor on the Dutch Frontier, Breaking the Chains: Slavery and its Legacy in the Nineteenth-Century Cape Colony, Breaking the Chains: Labour in South Africa in the 1970s and 1980s

Flexible work practices in South Africa: economic, labour relations and regulatory considerations

Here the author reviews flexible work practices in South Africa (SA) using Blyton's typology of functional, numerical, temporal and wage flexibility. Workplace flexibility implications for SA labour market and increased use of numerical flexibility are discussed. The article identifies factors limiting the introduction of flexible work practices.

Forced removal and the struggle for land and labour in South Africa: the Ngomane of Tenbosch, 1926–1954

This paper is about the forced removal of an African community in the Transvaal lowveld, South Africa. It argues that while the broad contours of forced removals in South Africa were similar, the struggle by communities to retain access to land and control over their labour was regionally variable and resistant to broad generalization. The paper also suggests that the role of the state in rural transformation is more complex and that the forced relocation of rural Africans cannot be reduced to a struggle between African peasants and a monolithic apartheid state. Finally, the case study reveals that a crucial, yet hidden, component of forced removals involves the redefinition and re-conquest of space. By way of conclusion, several broader themes on rural transformation in South Africa are discussed. [1]

Breaking the Chains: Labour in South Africa in the 1970s and 1980s

The author draws together data concerning the historical struggle for justice on the part of organized labour in South Africa, prior to the momentous reforms of 1990. He also provides an account of the relationship between the unions and the political organizations which opposed apartheid.

Breaking the Chains: Labour in South Africa in the 1970s and 1980s

Breaking the Chains: Labour in South Africa in the 1970s and 1980s

On Migratory Labour in South Africa (Review Article)1

On Migratory Labour in South Africa (Review Article)¹

Breaking the Chains: Labour in South Africa in the 1970's and 1980's

Breaking the Chains: Labour in South Africa in the 1970's and 1980's

Book Reviews

Book Reviewed in this article: Rob Shields Places on the Margin: Alternative geographies of modernity. M. Storper and A. J. Scott (Eds.) Pathways to Industrialization and Regional Development. Jean‐François Bayart The State in Africa: The Politics of the Belly. Jonathan Crush and Charles Ambler (Eds.) Liquor and Labor In South Africa. Robert Bullard, (Ed.) Confronting Environmental Racism: Voices from the Grassroots. Martin W. Lewis, Green Delusions: An Environmentalist Critique of Radical Environmentalism. Andrew Gilg (Ed.) Restructuring The Countryside: Environmental Policy in Practice

Reviews and Short Notices

Reviews and Short Notices

Our Precious Metal: African Labour in South Africa's Gold Industry, 1970-1990

Our Precious Metal: African Labour in South Africa's Gold Industry, 1970-1990

Our Precious Metal: African Labour in South Africa's Gold Industry, 1970-1990

Part I - organizing a labour supply: migrant labour and inter-state relations a buyer's market - labour recruiting in the homelands urban labour and mine housing. Part II - the ascendancy of African workers: when African workers become unionized compounds as contested institutions the struggle over the colour bar.

South Africa's Labour Empire. A History of Black Migrancy to the Gold Mines

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Our Precious Metal: African Labour in South Africa's Gold Industry, 1970- 1990.

Our Precious Metal: African Labour in South Africa's Gold Industry, 1970- 1990.

Reviews

The World Development Report 1992. World Bank, Oxford University Press, New York, 1992. xii plus 308pp. including tables, graphs, notes, bibliography, index, and statistical appendices. Some Fell on Good Ground. An Account of the Queenstown Early Learning Centre by Michael Whisson. Occasional Paper 33, Institute of Social and Economic Research, Rhodes University, Grahamstown 1992. 97pp. R33. Paperback. Foreign Military Intervention in Africa by Keith Somerville. Pinter Publishers, London and St. Martin's Press, New York, 1990. x plus 205pp. including maps, bibliography and index. Shots in the Streets: Violence and Religion in South Africa by David Chidester. Oxford University Press, 1991. 199pp. Index. South African Human Rights and Labour Law Yearbook edited by Michael Robertson, assisted by Chris Albertyn and Megan Seneque. Oxford University Press, Cape Town/Centre for Socio‐Legal Studies, Durban, 1990. vii plus 472pp. including appendices and index. Paperback. Coups and Army Rule in Africa: Motivations and Constraints by Samuel Decalo. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2nd Edition, 1990. xvii plus 366pp. Swaziland's International Relations and Foreign Policy: A Study of a Small African State in International Relations by Paul‐Henri Bischoff. Peter Lang Publishers, Bern, Frankfurt‐am‐Main, New York, Paris, 1990. v plus 548 pp. including tables and bibliography. Our Precious Metal: African Labour in South Africa's Gold Industry, 1970–1990 by Wilmot B. James. David Philip, Cape Town, 1992. ix plus 188pp. including maps, graphs, bibliography and index. Paperback. South Africa's Labour Empire: A History of Black Migrancy to the Gold Mines by Jonathan Crush, Alan Jeeves and David Yudelman. David Philip, Cape Town, 1991. xvi plus 266pp. including maps, tables, graphs, statistical appendix, bibliography and index. Paperback. South Africa's Foreign Relations in Transition 1985–1992: A Chronology compiled by Elna Schoeman, assisted by Chris Schoeman. South African Institute of International Affairs, Bibliographical Series no 24. Johannesburg, 1992. iii plus 666pp.

Book reviews

Women of Phokeng: Consciousness, Life Strategy, and Migrancy in South Africa 1900 ‐1983 by Belinda Bozzoli, with the assistance of Mmantho Nkotsoe, Johannesburg, Ravan Press, 1991. Our Precious Metal: African Labour in South Africa's Gold Industry, 1970–1990 by Wilmot G. James, David Philip, James Currey & Indiana University Press, Cape Town, London & Bloomington,1992. Bounds of Possibility ‐ The Legacy of Steve Biko & Black Consciousness by N.B. Pityana, M. Ramphele, M. Mpumlwana, & L. Wilson, (eds), Cape Town, David Philip, 1991. Faces in the revolution: the psychological effects of violence on township youth in South Africa by Gill Straker, with Fathima Moosa, Rise Becker and Madiyoyo Nkwale. Cape Town, David Philip, 1992 and Athens, Ohio, Ohio University Press, 1992. Lives of Courage: Women for a New South Africa by Diana E.H.Russell. New York, Basic Books, 1989. Towards Justice? Crime and State Control in South Africa by Desiree Hansson and Dirk van Zyl Smit (eds), Cape Town, Oxford University Press, 1990. South Africa in the Nineties by DJ van Vuuren, NE Wiehahn, NJ Rhoodie en M Wiechers (eds), HSRC Publishers, 1991. To Live in Fear: Witchburning and Medicine Murder in Venda by A de V. Minnar, D Offringa and C Payze, HSRC, Pretoria, 1992. The Anti‐Politics Machine: ‘Development’, Depoliticization and Bureaucratic Power by James Ferguson, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1990. Zimbabwe's Guerrilla War: Peasant Voices by Norma J. Kriger. Cambridge University Press, African Studies Series, number 70,1992. A Passage to England ‐ Barbadian Londoners speak of home by John Western. U.C.L. Press, London, 1992. Breaking the formal frame: Readings in South African education in the eighties by Clive Millar, Sarah‐Anne Raynham and Angela Schaffer (eds). Cape Town: Oxford University Press, 1991. Negotiation : Theories, Strategies and Skills by Wynand Pienaar and Manie Spoelstra, Kenwyn, Juta, 1991 SUM: Selected Works by Martin Versveld. Cape Town: Carrefour Press 1991. Projections in the Past Tense, by Kelwyn Sole. Ravan Press, 1992.

Our precious metal: African labour in South Africa's gold industry, 1970-1990

Our precious metal: African labour in South Africa's gold industry, 1970-1990

Journalists for empire: the imperial debate in the Edwardian Stately Press, 1903-1913

Preface The Edwardian Public Debate and the Press The Imperial Journalists The Crucible of Tariff Reform Chinese Labor in South Africa: Part I, 1903-1904 Chinese Labor in South Africa: Part II, 1905-1906 The Political Reconstruction of South Africa: Part I, 1905-1906 The Political Reconstruction of South Africa: Part II, 1906-1914 The Quest for Imperial Partnership: Part I, 1907-1910 The Quest for Imperial Partnership: Part II, 1911-1913 Retrospect Bibliography Index

Needs assessment, priority setting, and contracts for health care: an economic view.

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Indentured and Unfree Labour in South Africa: Towards an Understanding

Indentured and Unfree Labour in South Africa: Towards an Understanding