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Retail Worker Politics, Race and Consumption in South Africa

Retail Worker Politics, Race and Consumption in South Africa Shelved in the Service Economy

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Retail Worker Politics, Race and Consumption in South Africa

Shelved in the Service Economy

Bridget Kenny

Social Science / Developing & Emerging Countries

Gives flesh to precarious women service workers’ subjectivities 

Follows workers' struggles from white to black women's labour

Contextualizes debates around employment, inequality, poverty alleviation and labour politics from the perspective of a developing economy

Bridget Kenny is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. She works on labour, gender and consumption with a specific focus on service work, precarious employment, and political subjectivity.


Publication Date: 06 June 2018
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN-13: 9783319695501
Format: Hardback
Page Count: 282

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