“We feel that our strength is on the factory floor”: dualism, shop-floor power, and labor law reform in late apartheid South Africa

This article explores the transformation of South African labor relations during the 1980s. In 1979, prompted by new shop-floor militancy, the Wiehahn Commission recommended that black workers, previously excluded from state labor machinery, be permitted to join recognized unions. Most discussions o...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Alex Lichtenstein
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC) 2020-03-01
Series:Revista Mundos do Trabalho
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Online Access:https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/mundosdotrabalho/article/view/1984-9222.2020.e72467