9. How the global economic crisis reaches marginalised workers: the case of street traders in Johannesburg, South Africa

2011 ◽  
pp. 115-128
Author(s):  
Jennifer Cohen
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Global Economic Crisis

Trashing Solidarity: The Production of Power and the Challenges to Organizing Informal Reclaimers

2019 ◽  
Vol 95 ◽  
pp. 34-48
Author(s):  
Melanie Samson
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Social History ◽  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Informal Worker ◽  
Informal Workers ◽  
Global Economic Crisis ◽  
History Of

AbstractThis article presents a nuanced social history of how reclaimers at the Marie Louise landfill in Soweto, South Africa, organized against each other on the basis of nationality instead of uniting to combat the effects of the 2008 global economic crisis. Through this narrative of struggles at one particular dump, the article contributes to debates on informal worker organizing by theorizing the importance of the production of identities, power relations, space, and institutions in understanding how and why informal workers create and maintain power-laden divisions between themselves. The article argues that organizing efforts that seek to overcome divisions between informal workers cannot simply exhort them to unite based on abstract principles, but must actively transform the places and institutions forged by these workers through which they create and crystallize divisive identities and power relations.

Does the Ongoing Global Economic Crisis Put Diversity Gains at Risk?

2016 ◽  
pp. 424-452 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joana Vassilopoulou ◽  
Kurt April ◽  
Jose Pascal Da Rocha ◽  
Olivia Kyriakidou ◽  
Mustafa Ozbilgin
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Diversity Management ◽  
Business Case ◽  
The World ◽  
Global Economic Crisis ◽  
International Diversity ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Critical Account ◽  
Diversity Gains

This chapter builds on an earlier chapter titled “International Diversity Management: Examples from the USA, South Africa, and Norway.” In the first version of this chapter, we found one common subject emerging when looking closer at all three examples. In all three cases we found a call for the moral and justice case for diversity management, instead of the business-case alone. Based on this commonality and in light of the ongoing global economic crisis and its possible deteriorating effect for the international diversity agenda we decided to offer a more critical account on international diversity management with this chapter. This chapter offers examples from the USA, South Africa and Greece. We conclude the chapter arguing that while the three countries face all different challenges due to the global economic crisis, the way governments across the world respond to the crisis is often similar, which endangers past diversity gains and translates in a backlash for diversity.

scholarly journals Regional Impact of the Global Economic Crisis on the Free State Province in South Africa: A Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) Assessment

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 471-484
Author(s):  
Helene Maisonnave ◽  
Jugal Mahabir ◽  
Margaret Chitiga ◽  
Ramos Mabugu
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
General Equilibrium ◽  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Computable General Equilibrium ◽  
Computable General Equilibrium Model ◽  
Provincial Government ◽  
Free State ◽  
Free State Province ◽  
Global Economic Crisis ◽  
National Governments

The decline in the world economy that followed the 2008-2009 global economic crisis had detrimental effects on most economies. Not enough attention has been paid to the process through which crisis-related pressures affected regional economies and sub-national governments. A regional computable general equilibrium model was developed to analyse impacts of the crisis on the regional economy of the Free State province in South Africa. Key results included a general fall in prices in the province, a fall in demand in sectors that are more vulnerable to global conditions, falling wages and declining incomes for agents and provincial government.

South Africa: from apartheid to xenophobia

Race & Class ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 63 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-22
Author(s):  
Pervaiz Khan
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Working Class ◽  
South African ◽  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Social Conditions ◽  
The Other ◽  
Capitalist Development ◽  
Global Economic Crisis ◽  
History Of ◽  
The One

How to explain the violent xenophobic attacks in South Africa in recent years? Two militant South African activists, Leonard Gentle and Noor Nieftagodien, interviewed here, analyse the race/class bases for the anti-foreigner violence in terms of the echoes/reverberations of apartheid and the rise of neoliberalism. They argue that remnants of apartheid have endured through the reproduction of racial and tribal categories, which has contributed to the entrenchment of exclusionary nationalist politics and the fragmentation of black unity. South Africa’s specific history of capitalist development, the African National Congress’s embraces of neoliberalism, on the one hand, and rainbowism, on the other, have produced the underlying conditions of precarity and desperation that resulted in the normalisation of xenophobia. The unions, too, have failed to recognise the new shape of the ‘working class’. Gentle and Nieftagodien outline the need to contend with the broader social conditions, the global economic crisis, neoliberalism and the deep inequalities it engenders in order to counteract the rising tide of xenophobia and build working-class unity.

WAYS TO OVERCOME THE PROBLEMS OF INSOLVENCY IN THE CONDITIONS OF CURRENT GLOBAL ECONOMIC CRISIS

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 81-86
Author(s):  
Ilxom Sayfiddinov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Economic Crisis ◽  
National Economy ◽  
Investment Environment ◽  
Global Economic Crisis ◽  
Macroeconomic Stability

The article discusses the ways to overcome the problem of insolvency in the current global economic crisis. It also discusses in detail the ways to overcome the problem of insolvency. Opinions and conclusions were formed on insolvency, macroeconomic stability, competitiveness of the national economy, investment environment, strengthening of payment discipline

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