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[Everyone's Blog Posts - unionbook] Launch: Labour and Precarious Liberation (Franco Barchiesi, Centre ...: From 1994 to 2002 he lived in Johannesburg, where he was teaching in the Department of Sociology at Wits and was a founding editor of the now defunct magazine "Debate: Voices from the South African Left". His new book is "Precarious Liberation: Workers, the State, and Contested Social Citizenship in Postapartheid South Africa"

[UKZN Press] Seminar on Precarious Liberation by Franco Barchiesi at the ...: 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.

[Everyone's Blog Posts - UnionBook] Precarious Liberation of (only?) South African Workers (New Book of ...: In a South African context where wage labor has long been taken as the foundation of modern social citizenship, and where the demand for employment has been the touchstone of nearly all progressive politics, Franco Barchiesi upends conventional understandings through the radical act of listening. By paying careful attention to the words, thoughts, and experiences of wage laborers, he allows us to appreciate the way that wage labor today typically provides not stability and security, but rather uncertainty, resentment, and dissatisfaction, leavened with aspirations for escape from a system of labor increasingly built not on membership and solidarity, but on flexibility and „precarity.”Ÿ A valuable and original work that can help to open up a broader political imaginary of critique than is currently available, in South Africa and beyond." ”” James Ferguson, author of Global Shadows: Africa in the Neoliberal World Order

[Rozenberg Quarterly] Some Notes on Citizenship, Civil Society and Social Movements ...: In order to achieve the coexistence of the principle of liberty with that of the free market, Marshall proposed that the state guarantee a minimum level of wellbeing necessary for the autonomous participation of all people in social and political life, separated from the “achievement principle.” In this manner, he argued, “citizenship becomes the architect of legitimate inequalities.” In other words, instead of defining citizenship in terms of property, this concept was given a new basis in universal, politically-guaranteed social rights through the redistributive intervention of the state. Marshall’s ideal thus implies a significant departure from the 19th century liberal model of citizenship, due to its objective of reconciling the principles of equality with those of the market economy, which required setting limits to free competition.

[Reinventing Labour] Social Citizenship, Decline of Waged Labour, and Worker Strategies ...: Trade unions’ participation in popular struggles for social services, boycotts and mobilisation against segregated municipal infrastructures during the 1980s (but also COSATU’s campaign against the introduction of the Value Added Tax in 1991) reflected an increasing unwillingness to confine demands for social emancipation to advances at the point of production. The control of workers’ militancy and demands became, therefore, a problem whose solution was required by the globalising agenda of a post-apartheid South African government that, in the absence and unfeasibility of an option of repressive containment of labour, put in place a system of tripartite institutionalised bargaining.

[Ceasefire Magazine] In Theory Precariatans of all countries, unite!: The Italian feminist group Prec@s did research which found that many young women do not seek a return to Fordist security, which carried along with it the imposition of unremunerated reproductive labour and subordination within the family. They were found to prefer creativity and autonomy to security.

[Soundtracksforthem] Interview With Alex Foti: Mayday Had Become A Funeral.: So it all came together and I think more than 100,000 praying cards were handed out and to this day if the equivalent of the Irish Times in Italy wants to talk about precarious workers, say a new law discriminates against them, you are sure that San Precario will appear. It’s the logo!

[groundviews] Sithuvili: On war's end and a year later…: about these issues as realistically as possible, .They would obtain citizenship, their children would easily mingle into the respective local societies, and in a world where 'racial profiling'

[china study group] Dying Young: Suicide & China's Booming Economy: Chinese migrant labor conditions as articulated by the state, are shaped by these intertwined forces: First, leading international brands have adopted unethical purchasing practices, resulting in substandard conditions in their global electronics supply chains.

[The Memory Bank] South Africa needs Africa: A shift from economic development conceived narrowly as a national project to a more inclusive process of regional cooperation, ultimately involving Africa as a whole, is unlikely to succeed if the only actors are the existing ruling powers, the political class identified by Mbeki as the main cause of Africa’s fragmented vulnerability and persistent underdevelopment. African people - and South Africa is notable for this - have generated a plethora of social movements, which for shorthand we could call ”˜civil society’, whose dynamism comes from having largely by-passed national bureaucracy in reaching out to the contemporary world.

[The African Blog] South Sudan's Referendum and Its Possible Implications: The United States has outlined a number of incentives towards both the North and South Sudan should they facilitate the successful conduct of the referendum. These include the prospect of lifting sanctions (that involve restrictions on trade and investment and the freezing of assets of certain Sudanese government officials, among others), the possibility of removing Sudan from the list of ”˜states sponsoring terrorism’ and re-engaging economically, if Sudanese leaders made progress in resolving the outstanding issues towards the referendum and improving the situation in the troubled Darfur region.

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