Labour Beyond Cosatu

Andries Bezuidenhout is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Pretoria. Malehoko Tshoaedi is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the University of Pretoria. They both publish prolifically in the area of labour studies, rights and movements, trade unions and industrial policy and women's rights and activism within trade union and labour movements.

Labour Beyond Cosatu goes well beyond the previous volumes of the Taking Democracy Seriously project in some of its sorties, and is not shy of pulling its punches in what is now a highly charged environment. Deeply sympathetic to the project of organised labour yet highly critical of its present trajectory, this collection deserves to attract wide attention internationally as well as domestically."" — Roger Southall, Professor Emeritus, Department of Sociology, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg""South Africa’s working class movement is still powerful, but pressurised and polarised due to major shifts in its structure, base and forms of struggle. This timely, rigorously researched collection draws attention to key developments within Cosatu and beyond ... Highly recommended."" — Lucien van der Walt, Professor of Sociology, Rhodes University, South Africa

• Preface Andries Bezuidenhout and Malehoko TshoaediChapter 1 Democracy and the rupture in South Africa’s labour landscape Andries Bezuidenhout and Malehoko TshoaediChapter 2 Research in a highly charged environment: Taking Democracy Seriously, 2014 Ntsehiseng Nthejane, Sandla Nomvete,Boitumelo Malope and Bianca TameChapter 3 The social character of labour politics Ari SitasChapter 4 Is Cosatu still a working-class movement? Andries Bezuidenhout, Christine Bischoff and Ntsehiseng NthejaneChapter 5 Labour aristocracy or marginal labour elite? Cosatu members’ income, other sources of livelihood and household supportChristine Bischoff and Bianca TameChapter 6 The politics of alliance and the 2014 elections Janet Cherry, Nkosinathi Jikeka and Tumi MalopeChapter 7 Cosatu, service delivery, civil society and the politics of community Janet CherryChapter 8 The politics of male power and privilege in trade unions: Understanding sexual harassment in Cosatu Malehoko TshoaediChapter 9 Internal democracy in Cosatu: Achievements and challenges Johann MareeChapter 10 Public sector unions in Cosatu Christine Bischoff and Johann MareeChapter 11 Are Cosatu’s public sector unions too powerful? Johann Maree and Christine BischoffChapter 12 Labour beyond Cosatu, other federations and independent unions Andries Bezuidenhout