Author: Jeremy BaskinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Corporate state
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Corporatism, Some Obstacles Facing the South African Labour Movement
Author: Jeremy BaskinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Corporate state
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Rethinking the Labour Movement in the 'New South Africa'
Author: Franco BarchiesiPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351773224
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
Title first published in 2003. In recognition of the power of organised labour, the ANC Government elected in 1994 granted South Africa's unions unprecedented legal and constitutional rights. Despite these gains, the country's unions have faced a fresh set of challenges, many of them emanating from their political allies in Government. From Parliament to the factory floor, South Africa's unions are now confronted with threats as dangerous as those they confronted when organising illegally in the heyday of apartheid. The purpose of this book is to examine how South African unions have responded and how well prepared they are to meet the challenges that confront them in the new millennium.
Engaging the State and Business
Author: Glenn AdlerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Industrial relations
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
One of the most innovative aspects of South Africa's democratization has been the emergence of institutions and processes through which workers and unions may challenge the state and business to gain varying degrees of control over important economic decisions. These features are unprecedented in the old South Africa. Moreover, such institutions and processes are virtually unknown among developing countries undergoing democratization, and have few precedents among advanced industrial countries that have well-established systems of codetermination. Scholars and practitioners have focused on specific elements of these changes, such as the National Economic Development and Labour Council (NEDLAC) or the workplace forum provisions of the Labour Relations Act. But they have generally missed the fact that the changes have implications ranging from the factory floor to the national and societal level, and the extent to which labor has obtained strong decision-making and consultation rights. Taken together these features have the potential to deepen dramatically the political democracy won in 1994. The chapters in this volume have been written by academics, independent researchers, and researchers affiliated with labor. The contributions combine depth of research and critical appraisal with privileged insights into current policy developments.
The Awkward Embrace
Author: Charles SimkinsPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135297177
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Democracies derive their resilience and vitality from the fact that the rule of a particular majority is usually only of a temporary nature. By looking at four case-studies, The Awkward Embrace studies democracies of a different kind; rule by a dominant party which is virtually immune from defeat. Such systems have been called Regnant or or Uncommon Democracies. They are characterized by distinctive features: the staging of unfree or corrupt elections; the blurring of the lines between government, the ruling party and the state; the introduction of a national project which is seen to be above politics; and the erosion of civil society. This book addresses major issues such as why one such democracy, namely Taiwan, has been moving in the direction of a more competitive system; how economic crises such as the present one in Mexico can transform the system; how government-business relations in Malaysia are affecting the base of the dominant party; and whether South Africa will become a one-party dominant system.
South Africa
Author: Murray FaurePublisher: SAGE
ISBN: 0857026089
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
The Republic of South Africa (RSA) held its first fully democratic elections in April 1994. They were a highly visible signal that the RSA is really moving from the era of apartheid towards a democratic constitutional state. The process is an archetypal case of a negotiated transition of a regime, and as such it is of great interest to students of constitutional mechanisms. The contributors to this book, leading South African political scientists, discuss the process, the difficulties and the achievements in the transformation of the RSA′s political and legal institutions. They address various aspects of constitutional design and their interactions with social forces. They examine the new constitution, the roles of president and executive, the electoral, party and parliamentary systems, and the Constitutional Court. They look at the public service, at questions of labour and corporatism, at the RSA′s changing external relations and at the position of the armed forces. The new government′s Reconstruction and Development Programme, of which so much is expected, is seen to be particularly vulnerable to the pull of opposing forces.
Globalization, Negotiation, and the Failure of Transformation in South Africa
Author: Michael H. AllenPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1403983070
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
The book explains the social forces, forms of consciousness and structural constraints that undermined Apartheid, preserved national unity and yet, later constrained democratic sovereignty, as the imperatives of global markets clashed with the prior aspirations of the democratic revolution.
The Politics of Opposition in Contemporary Africa
Author: Adebayo O. OlukoshiPublisher: Nordic Africa Institute
ISBN: 9789171064196
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
In South Africa, Michael Neocosmos
Handbook of Global Economic Policy
Author: Stuart NagelPublisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 148228992X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
Written by over 20 leading international economists, this book offers "win-win" scenarios to economic problems. As in the other volumes of this set of public policy handbooks, the Handbook of Global Economic Policy employs a unique organizational principle: from viewing economic problems from conservative and liberal perspectives, to developing pra
Bridging The Rift
Author: Larry SwatukPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429720920
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
Despite the lingering effects of more than a decade of sanctions and economic stagnation, South Africa retains the most powerful, industrialized, and diversified economy in sub-Saharan Africa. Today, as a postapartheid future is constructed and as the old political and economic barriers with the rest of the continent crumble, it is probable that th
The South at the End of the Twentieth Century
Author: Timothy M. ShawPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349235156
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
This collection is concerned with revisiting and redefining the political economy - both empirical and theoretical - of 'foreign policy' in the South as we approach the twenty-first century: the position of post-colonial states and societies in the post-Bretton Woods and Cold War world. With a focus on Africa, Asia, the Caribbean and Latin America, this collection comparatively examines the impact of changing political and economic structures upon policy-makers and civil societies in the South.