Labor and social citizenship in colonial and postcolonial modernity: South African perspectives in a continental context

Review

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 17-43

  Barchiesi, Franco ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CITIZENSHIP; EMPLOYMENT GENERATION; LABOR POLICY; MODERNITY; POST-APARTHEID; POST-COLONIALISM; TRANSITIONAL ECONOMY; WAGE DETERMINATION;

AFRICA; SOUTH AFRICA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 34447509640     PISSN: 01479032     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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