Amid the shock that followed the massacre at the Lonmin Marikana platinum mine, on August 16, 2012, when the South African police killed thirtyfour striking black miners and wounded approximately eighty others, a team of sociologists from the University of Johannesburg produced an “instant book” detailing the events, based on the oral narratives of survivors (see Alexander et al. 2012). The interviews make for somber reading. One respondent reckoned: “We were killed for nothing . . . we were not fighting with management. We simply wanted to know when they were going to give us our money” (108). Others read the lethality of the event through the persistent racial predicament of the South African workplace: “The white people pay each other better, but we get nothing” (110). The conspicuous presence of white law enforcement commanding officers that day is also frequently remarked upon. There is some general agreement that the strike concerned demands for adequate wages to meet the most basic needs and for workers’ voices to be heard by management without the mediation of discredited and unrepresentative unions. South Atlantic Quarterly

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人类宪法中的工作：二十世纪南非福利、黑人和政治经济的纠葛

2012 年 8 月 16 日，在 Lonmin Marikana 铂金矿大屠杀之后的震惊中，南非警察打死了 34 名罢工的黑人矿工，并打伤了大约 80 人，来自约翰内斯堡大学的一组社会学家制作了一本“速成书”。 ”根据幸存者的口头叙述详细描述了这些事件（参见 Alexander 等人，2012 年）。采访使阅读变得忧郁。一位受访者认为：“我们被白白杀死了。. . 我们没有和管理层打架。我们只是想知道他们什么时候会给我们钱”（108）。其他人则通过南非工作场所持续存在的种族困境来解读这一事件的致命性：“白人相互支付的费用更高，但我们一无所获”（110）。那天白人执法指挥官的显眼存在也经常被提及。一些普遍的共识是，罢工需要足够的工资来满足最基本的需求，并要求管理层在没有声名狼藉和缺乏代表性的工会调解的情况下听到工人的声音。南大西洋季刊