Organised labour and the politics of class formation in post-apartheid South Africa

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Title:	Organised labour and the politics of class formation in post-apartheid South Africa
Author:	Beresford, Alexander
Year:	2012
Periodical:	Review of African Political Economy (ISSN 0305-6244)
Volume:	39
Issue:	134
Pages:	569-589
Language:	English
Geographic term:	South Africa
Subjects:	trade unions social distance miners
External link:	https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03056244.2012.738417
Abstract:	This paper examines the processes of class formation being augmented by South Africa's democratic transition and the impacts these processes are having on trade union organizing. Through a case study of the National Union of Mineworkers in the energy industry, it is argued that affirmative action and employment equity policies are opening up divisions within the union and eroding its unifying class identity. This poses a great challenge, not only to trade union organization, but also to how the political role of South Africa's trade unions within the postapartheid era is understood. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. in English and French. [Journal abstract]