Titlebook: Retail Worker Politics, Race and Consumption in South Africa; Shelved in the Servi Bridget Kenny Book 2018 The Editor(s) (if applicable) an

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,“Tools Down, Everybody Out to the Canteen!”: Wildcats and Go-Slows, Political Subjects Reconfigured different employment categories both reaffirmed the collective political subject abasebenzi and reproduced divisions. Workers protested by claiming belonging, skill and class in workplace relations. In the process of embarking on collective actions, they further localized their politics to branches.

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2946-2231 debates around employment, inequality, poverty alleviation .This book argues that we need to focus attention on the ways that workers themselves have invested subjectively in what it means to be a worker. By doing so, we gain an explanation that moves us beyond the economic decisions made by actors

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Introduction: Precarity in Store,f workers’ collective politics today. It outlines three intersecting contours to explain shifting conjunctures of retail worker politics in South Africa: retail as a site of nation and belonging; the law and its role in structuring political subjects; and articulations of race, class, and gender in the constitution of . (isiZulu for workers).

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Rupturing Relations: Abasebenzi as Collective Political Subject,contrast to white women. Workers organized through CCAWUSA. This race-class subject was a potent signifier, a particular response both to an already constituted labour process and to a realm of consumption defined through white women’s labour.

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,Regulating Retail: The Category “Employee” and Its Divisions,hts developed in relation to legal categories with affective histories. It tracks how the full-time, permanent worker became the ideal category. Gendered and racialized legal categories conditioned the collective political subject emerging in workers’ struggles.