Maximum working class unity? Challenges to local social movement unionism in Cape Town

Antipode

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 802-824

  Lier, David Christoffer ^a   Stokke, Kristian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASS; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; ECONOMIC STRUCTURE; GLOBAL ECONOMY; LABOR MARKET; NEOLIBERALISM; SOCIAL MOVEMENT; TRADE UNION;

AFRICA; CAPE TOWN; SOUTH AFRICA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WESTERN CAPE;

EID: 33746691916     PISSN: 00664812     EISSN: 14678330     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8330.2006.00477.x     Document Type: Article

References (34)

1. Atkinson D (2003) The state of local government: Third-generation issues. In J Daniel, A Habib and R Southall (eds) State of the Nation: South Africa 2003-2004 (pp 118-138). Cape Town: HSRC Press
2. Baleni F (1996) Strategic unionism in the New South Africa. South African Labour Bulletin 20(3): 79-81
3. Ballard R (2005) Social movements in post apartheid South Africa: An introduction. In P Jones and K Stokke (eds) Democratising Development: The Politics of Socio-Economic Rights in South Africa (pp 77-100). Leiden: Martinus Nijhoff
4. Barchiesi F (2001) New issues for labour internationalism. Transnational capital, urban globalisation and cross-border solidarity: The case of the South African municipal workers. Antipode 33(3): 384-406
5. Bond P (2000) Cities of Gold, Townships of Coal: Essays on South Africa's New Urban Crisis. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press
6. Buhlungu S (2003) The state of trade unionism in post-apartheid South Africa. In J Daniel, A Habib and R Southall (eds) State of the Nation: South Africa 2003-2004 (pp 184-203). Cape Town: HSRC Press
7. Cape Town Anti-Privatisation Forum (2005) Working Committee Report to the Review & Planning Meeting, January 22. Cape Cape Town: Cape Town Anti-Privatisation Forum
8. Castree N, Coe N, Ward K and Samers M (2004) Spaces of Work - Global Capitalism and Geographies of Labour. London: Sage
9. Desai A (2003) Neoliberalism and resistance in South Africa. Monthly Review 54(8): 16-28
10. Habib A (2003) State-civil society relations in post-apartheid South Africa. In J Daniel, A Habib and R Southall (eds) State of the Nation: South Africa 2003-2004 (pp 227-241). Cape Town: HSRC Press
11. Habib A and KotzéH (2002) Civil Society, Governance & Development in an Era of Globalisation. Durban: University of Natal
12. Hart G (2002) Disabling Globalization-Places of Power in Post-Apartheid South Africa. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press
13. Harvey D (2003) The New Imperialism. Oxford: Oxford University Press
14. Herod A (2001) Labor internationalism and the contradictions of globalisation: Or, why the local is sometimes still important in a global economy. Antipode 33(3): 407-426
15. Lambert R and Webster E (2001) Southern unionism and the new labour internationalism. Antipode 33(3): 337-362
16. Lier D C (2005) "Maximum Working Class Unity?Challenges to Local Social Movement Unionism in Cape Town."Unpublished Master thesis, University of Oslo, Department of Sociology and Human Geography
17. Lipsig-Mumme C (2003) Forms of solidarity: Unions, the communities and job creation strategies. Labour Review August: 112
18. Lopez S H (2004) Reorganizing the Rust Belt. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press
19. Lumsden F and Loftus A (2003) Inanda's Struggle for Water Through Pipes and Tunnels: Exploring State-Civil Society Relations in a Post-apartheid Informal Settlement. Durban: University of KwaZulu-Natal, Centre for Civil Society
20. Marais H (2001) Limits to Change-The Political Economy of Transition. London: Zed
21. McDonald D and Smith L (2002) Privatizing Cape Town: Service Delivery and Policy Reforms Since 1996. Cape Town: Municipal Services Project Occasional Papers No 7
22. Moody K (1997) Workers in a Lean World. London: Verso
23. Munck R (2002) Globalisation and Labour-the New "Great Transformation". London: Zed
24. Ngwane T (2003) Sparks in the townships. New Left Review 22(4): 37-56
25. Oldfield S and Stokke K (forthcoming) Building unity in diversity: Social movement activism in the Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign. In A Habib, I Valodia and R Ballard (eds) Globalisation, Marginalisation and New Social Movements. Durban: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press
26. Samson M (2004) SA's vulnerable-out on the streets. South African Labour Bulletin 28(1): 1-2
27. Sassoon A S (1980) Gramsci's Politics. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minneapolis Press
28. Seidman G (1994) Manufacturing Militance: Workers' Movements in Brazil and South Africa, 1970-1985. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press
29. Tørres L (2005) Labour and politics in South Africa. In P Jones and K Stokke (eds) Democratising Development: The Politics of Socio-Economic Rights in South Africa (pp 55-76). Leiden: Martinus Nijhoff
30. von Holdt K (2003) Transition From Below-Forging Trade Unionism and Workplace Change. Scottsville: University of Natal Press
31. Waterman P (1995) New social unionism. South African Labour Bulletin 19(5): 69-76
32. Waterman P (2001) Trade union internationalism in the age of Seattle. Antipode 33(3): 312-336
33. Webster E (1994) The rise of social-movement unionism: The two faces of the black trade union movement in South Africa. In E Webster, L Alfred, L Bethlehem, A Joffe and T-A Selikow (eds) Work and Industrialisation in South Africa: An Introductory Reader (pp 174-196). Randburg: Ravan Press
34. Xali M (forthcoming) Seeking Trade Union and Community Organisation Linkages in the Cape Town Metropolitan Area: Possibilities for New Trade Unionism and New Social Movements. Cape Town: ILRIG Research Report