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Title: | Institutionalisation, strike violence and local moral orders |
Author: | Holdt, Karl von |
Year: | 2010 |
Periodical: | Transformation: Critical Perspectives on Southern Africa (ISSN 0258-7696) |
Issue: | 72-73 |
Pages: | 127-151 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | South Africa |
Subjects: | strikes violence labour relations |
External link: | https://muse.jhu.edu/article/383716 |
Abstract: | This article examines why violence remains so much a part of industrial action in postapartheid South Africa. It argues that several factors continue to undermine the institutionalization of industrial relations and that, as in the 1980s, these factors range from those that are specific to the field of industrial relations itself to those that arise from the nature of the broader political, economic and social transition. The article begins by summarizing a case study of strike violence in a steelworks during the apartheid period. It then turns to two strikes in the public service, one in 1992, when public service workers had no institutional or trade union rights, and the second in 2007, when they had full trade union and collective bargaining rights. The article concludes that the question of the industrial and social order in postapartheid South Africa is not a settled matter; the authority of the State and of the law has a limited reach, and the balance of power between social forces remains contested. Bibliogr., notes. [ASC Leiden abstract] |