Decent Work for All: Rethinking Decent Work in the Context of South Africa

oleh: Carmen Ludwig, Edward Webster

Format: Article
Diterbitkan: University of Fribourg - Division of Sociology, Social Work and Social Policy 2020-12-01

Deskripsi

The authors argue that there is a need to rethink what a commitment to decent work would mean in the context of South Africa, a country with a large number of long term unemployed. Drawing on their experience of researching work in South Africa, they highlight the relevance of the agency of workers for the progressive realisation of a decent work agenda. The lukewarm response of the government to the diagnostic tool designed to measure decent work led the authors to reframe decent work in a positive way as an organising tool to recruit vulnerable workers into a broader, more inclusive movement of working people.