Changes and continuities in the labour process on commercial farms in post-Apartheid South Africa : studies from Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal Provinces

Kheswa, Nomzamo Sybil

Title: Changes and continuities in the labour process on commercial farms in post-Apartheid South Africa : studies from Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal Provinces
Creator: Kheswa, Nomzamo Sybil
ThesisAdvisor: Helliker, Kirk
Subject: Agricultural laborers -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
Subject: Agricultural laborers -- South Africa -- KwaZulu-Natal
Subject: Agricultural wages -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
Subject: Agricultural wages -- South Africa -- KwaZulu-Natal
Subject: Eastern Cape (South Africa) -- Rural conditions
Subject: KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa) -- Rural conditions
Subject: Agricultural laborers -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape -- Social conditions
Subject: Agricultural laborers -- South Africa -- KwaZulu-Natal -- Social conditions
Subject: Agricultural laborers -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
Subject: Agricultural laborers -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- South Africa -- KwaZulu-Natal
Subject: Apartheid -- South Africa
Date: 2014
Type: Thesis
Type: Masters
Type: MA
Identifier: vital:3366
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1011978
Identifier: Agricultural laborers -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
Identifier: Agricultural laborers -- South Africa -- KwaZulu-Natal
Identifier: Agricultural wages -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
Identifier: Agricultural wages -- South Africa -- KwaZulu-Natal
Identifier: Eastern Cape (South Africa) -- Rural conditions
Identifier: KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa) -- Rural conditions
Identifier: Agricultural laborers -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape -- Social conditions
Identifier: Agricultural laborers -- South Africa -- KwaZulu-Natal -- Social conditions
Identifier: Agricultural laborers -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
Identifier: Agricultural laborers -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- South Africa -- KwaZulu-Natal
Identifier: Apartheid -- South Africa
Description: This thesis examines the agricultural labour process on commercial farms in post-apartheid South Africa with a particular focus on systems of labour control on these farms. Considerable literature exists about the labour process in capitalist society but the capitalist labour process does not exist in any pure form. Rather, different labour processes exist and the specific form they take depends on spatial and temporal conditions. Additionally, labour processes are often economic sector-specific. Because of variation in capitalist labour processes, differences in systems of labour control (or labour control regimes) also arise. Historically, up until the end of apartheid in 1994, the labour control regime on commercial farms in South Africa was marked by a paternalistic despotism of a racialised kind. This in part reflected the fact that commercial farms were simultaneously sites of both economic production and social reproduction and, further, they were very privatised agrarian spaces largely unregulated (specifically with regard to labour) by the state. Since the end of apartheid, commercial farms have been subjected to multiple pressures. Notably, the South African state has strongly intervened in labour relations on commercial farms, and commercial farms have been subjected to ongoing neo-liberal restructuring. This has led to the prospects of changes in the prevailing labour control system on commercial farms. In this context, the thesis pursues the following key objective: to understand changes and continuities in the labour process on commercial farms – and particularly labour control systems – subsequent to the end of apartheid in South Africa. It does so with reference to four farms in Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal Provinces.
Format: 149 leaves, pdf
Publisher: Rhodes University, Faculty of Humanities, Sociology
Language: English
Rights: Kheswa, Nomzamo Sybil

Hits: 4429
Visitors: 4501
Downloads: 172

Collections

RU Department of Sociology

		Thumbnail	File	Description	Size	Format
View Details			SOURCEPDF	PDF	1 MB	Adobe Acrobat PDF	View Details