Browsing by Subject "Labour"

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    An investigation into South Africans performing online erotic labour, experiences of their labour and their experiences and negotiations of stigmatisation
    (2025) Megannon, Tegwyn; Seedat, Fatima
    The lived experiences of online erotic labourers, in South Africa, is investigated in this dissertation. To investigate the experiences of digital labour and stigma, five South Africans who have performed erotic labour participated in semi-structured interviews. A qualitative research design, grounded in critical theory, was used to develop a rich understanding of online erotic labour. Sex work and erotic labour has been conceptualised through a sex work inclusionary feminist academic lens and analysis was done using reflexive thematic analysis technique. Findings revealed that experiences of erotic labour are significantly influenced by the type of digital platform used to sell labour. These experiences were found to be located within the broader context of platform mediated gig work, and I investigated how platform capitalism affects workers' experiences of precarity. Congruent with other non- stigmatised gig workers, findings show that performing online erotic labour is subject to general forms of income insecurity and economic liability. However, the stigmatised nature of erotic labour creates a unique kind of precarity that is not endemic to all forms of platform mediated gig work. The findings detail how this stigma is navigated and how my participants create positive meanings in their lives related to their erotic labour.
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    Labour, wages and minimum wage compliance in the Breërivier valley six months after the introduction of minimum wages
    (2003) Conradie, Beatrice
    In August 2003, six months after statutory minimum wages came into effect in South African agriculture, wine farmers in two Western Cape districts were surveyed to establish the initial employment impacts of the sectoral determination. The data suggest universal compliance with legal requirements for most labour classes. Specified wage rates required almost no wage increase in one district, and wage increases of between 16% and 25% in the other district, especially for workers at the bottom end of the wage scale. Price elasticity of demand for farm labour is estimated to be between –0.28 and –0.30. No evidence was found that tractors and labourers are substitutes in the production of wine grapes, but the data support a substitution hypothesis for labour and grape harvesting machines, although the relationship was not statistically significant. Job losses during the past year were limited to about 1% of permanent staff, and were in line with the estimated labour elasticity.
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    The economy-wide impacts of the labour intensification of infrastructure expenditure in South Africa
    (CSSR and SALDRU, 2015-05-28) McCord, Anna; Van Seventer, Dirk