Bridget Kenny

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Retail Worker Politics, Race and Consumption in South Africa (eBook, PDF)

Shelved in the Service Economy

Beschreibung

Gives flesh to precarious women service workers' subjectivities

Follows workers' struggles from white to black women's labour

Contextualizes debates around employment, inequality, poverty alleviation and labour politics from the perspective of a developing economy

Technische Details

• Geräte: PC
• ohne Kopierschutz
• Größe: 3.81MB

Barrierefreiheit

• Text-to-Speech

Autor

Bridget Kenny is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. She works on labour, gender and consumption with a specific focus on service work, precarious employment, and political subjectivity.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer International Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 282
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Mai 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783319695518
• Artikelnr.: 52675709

Rezensionen

"Retail Worker Politics, Race and Consumption in South Africa offers searing insight into the contested world of retail work and labour politics over the past century in South Africa. ... Given the book's ambitious historical scope and research agenda, its contributions are manifold. ... As we confront the sobering realities of our present, Kenny's book leaves us with a key question about the stakes and the political horizons of labour politics forged during previous eras of struggle." (Jennifer Jihye Chun, Global Labour Journal, Vol. 9 (03), September, 2018)