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Precarious Class Formations in the United States and South Africa
International Labor and Working-Class History ( IF 0.563 ) Pub Date : 2016-01-01 , DOI: 10.1017/s0147547915000381
Marcel Paret

Recent scholarship highlights the global expansion of precarious layers of the working class. This article examines the growth and collective struggles of such precarious layers in two very different places: California, United States and Gauteng, South Africa. The comparison challenges and extends existing research in two ways. First, it shows that the spread of insecurity is far from uniform, taking different forms in different places. Lack of citizenship is more crucial for workers in California, whereas underemployment is more crucial for workers in Gauteng. Second, it shows that insecure segments of the working class are capable of developing collective agency. This agency may be rooted in identities that extend beyond precarious employment, and will reflect the particular forms of insecurity that are prevalent in the given context. Such diversity is illustrated by examining May Day protests in California and community protests around service delivery in Gauteng.

中文翻译:

美国和南非的不稳定阶级形成

最近的奖学金凸显了工人阶级不稳定阶层的全球扩张。本文研究了在两个截然不同的地方(美国加利福尼亚州和南非豪登省)这种不稳定层的增长和集体斗争。比较以两种方式挑战并扩展了现有研究。首先,它表明,不安全感的蔓延远非统一,在不同地方采取不同形式。缺乏公民身份对加利福尼亚州的工人而言更为关键,而就业不足对豪登省的工人而言则更为关键。其次,它表明工人阶级中不安全的阶层有能力发展集体代理。该机构可能植根于不稳定的工作范围之外的身份,并将反映在特定情况下普遍存在的特定形式的不安全感。
更新日期:2016-01-01
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