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

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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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Much of the debate on the future of work has focused on responses to technological trends in the Global North, with little evidence on how these trends are impacting work and workers in the Global South. Drawing on a rich selection of ethnographic studies of precarious work in Africa, this innovative book discusses how globalisation and digitalisation are drivers for structural change, and examines their implications for labour. Bringing together global labour studies and inequality studies, it explores the role of digital technology in new business models, and ways in which digitalisation can be harnessed for counter-mobilisation by the new worker.

Author Biography

Edward Webster is Distinguished Research Professor at the Southern Centre of Inequality Studies and the founder and past director of the Society, Work and Development Institute (SWOP) at the University of the Witwatersrand. Professor Webster was the recipient of the first South African Sociological Association (SASA) lifetime award for his contribution to the academic study of the sociology of work and labour in South Africa.

Table of Contents

1. The End of Labour? Rethinking the Labour Question in the Digital Age2. Precarious Work after Apartheid: Experimenting with Alternative Forms of Representation in the Informal Sector - with Kally Forrest3. Neo-liberalism comes to Johannesburg: Changing the Rules of the Game4. Divided Workers, Divided Struggles: Entrenching Dualisation and the Struggle for Equalisation in South Africa's Manufacturing Sector - Lynford Dor5. Authoritarian Algorithmic Management: The Double-edged Sword of the Gig Economies - with Fikile Masikane6. Crossing the Divide: Informal Workers and Trade Unions - with Carmen Ludwig7. Global Capital, Global Labour: The Possibilities of Transnational Activism - with Carmen Ludwig8. Changing Sources of Power and the Future of Southern Labour

Review

"Webster and his colleagues have done it again! Their careful ethnographic studies offer a much-needed perspective from Africa on the central challenges facing labour worldwide: the disruptive impact of digital technologies and how workers can mobilise in response." Ruth Milkman, City University of New York"Refuting pessimistic accounts of the decline of worker power, Webster has written a masterful account of new worker struggles in the Global South, with valuable lessons for the Global North." Chris Tilly, University of California, Los Angeles"Knowledge production must show how worker resistance can be harnessed into a global movement to confront exploitation. This collection explores how real problems and processes should be the focus of research and the analysis of its findings." Akua O Britwum, University of Cape Coast'Workers as helpless victims of new technology? Not so argues Eddie Webster in this powerful book on labour's innovative forms of organisation and new power resources in the Global South. A must read!' Andreas Bieler, University of Nottingham

Long Description

Much of the debate on the future of work has focused on responses to technological trends in the Global North, with little evidence on how these trends are impacting on work and workers in the Global South. Drawing on a rich selection of ethnographic studies of precarious work in Africa, this innovative book discusses how globalisation and digitalisation are drivers for structural change and examines their implications for labour. Bringing together global labour studies and inequality studies, it explores the role of digital technology in new business models, and ways in which digitalization can be harnessed for counter mobilisation.

Feature

Offers an innovative approach to thinking about how the world of work is changing and how workers in the global South are responding in creative ways to growing inequality.

Details ISBN1529218799 Author Lynford Dor Short Title Work and Inequality in the Digital Age Language English Year 2023 ISBN-10 1529218799 ISBN-13 9781529218794 Format Paperback Publisher Bristol University Press Imprint Bristol University Press Country of Publication United Kingdom Publication Date 2023-07-17 Subtitle Work and Inequality in the Shadow of the Digital Age NZ Release Date 2023-07-17 UK Release Date 2023-07-17 Alternative 9781529218787 DEWEY 331.096 Audience General Pages 200 Illustrations 4 Tables, black and white; 16 Illustrations, black and white AU Release Date 2023-07-16 We've got this

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