Evaluation of labor agency strategy : the case of a strike at a South African open cast mine in 2012

dc.contributor.authorMashayamombe, John
dc.date.accessioned2020-01-23T05:23:23Z
dc.date.available2020-01-23T05:23:23Z
dc.date.issued2020-12
dc.description.abstractThe South African mining sector has experienced labor conflicts characterized by militancy and violence. Militancy and violence was evident along South Africa’s platinum belt between 2012 and 2014. In the case of Huntington mine, about three hundred workers managed to pull a spectacular strike action when they captured mine equipment and threatened to destroy it if their demands were not met. Drawing together concepts of space, power, and agency, it is argued that the wildcat strike was a failure because power resources were not consolidated and used effectively. As a result, their demands were not met, and they lost their jobs at Huntington mine.en_ZA
dc.description.departmentSociologyen_ZA
dc.description.librarianhj2020en_ZA
dc.description.sponsorshipThe National Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences (NIHSS) and Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa’s (CODESRIA) African Pathways PhD Scholarship and University of Pretoria postgraduate scholarship.en_ZA
dc.description.urihttps://journals.sagepub.com/home/lsjen_ZA
dc.identifier.citationMashayamombe J. Evaluation of Labor Agency Strategy: The Case of a Strike at a South African Opencast Mine in 2012. Labor Studies Journal. 2020;45(4):351-369. doi:10.1177/0160449X19862611.en_ZA
dc.identifier.issn0160-449X (print)
dc.identifier.issn1538-9758 (online)
dc.identifier.other10.1177/0160449X19862611
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/72870
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.publisherSageen_ZA
dc.rights© 2019 UALEen_ZA
dc.subjectMiningen_ZA
dc.subjectLabor agencyen_ZA
dc.subjectWildcat strikesen_ZA
dc.subjectSpaceen_ZA
dc.subjectPoweren_ZA
dc.titleEvaluation of labor agency strategy : the case of a strike at a South African open cast mine in 2012en_ZA
dc.typePostprint Articleen_ZA

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