Wage workers in a 'homeland township' : their experiences in finding, maintaining and losing employment

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dc.contributor.advisorSpiegel, Andrew Daviden_ZA
dc.contributor.authorNiehaus, Isak Arnolden_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2016-11-01T10:31:01Z
dc.date.available2016-11-01T10:31:01Z
dc.date.issued1987en_ZA
dc.descriptionBibliography: pages 254-266.en_ZA
dc.description.abstractWorkers domiciled in Qwaqwa, South Africa's smallest 'homeland', experience high rates of unemployment and job instability. Yet most terminations of employment are employee-instigated. This dissertation examines the reasons for employment instability among wage workers resident in a housing section in Phuthaditjhaba, the 'homeland's' only urban area. The approach adopted in the dissertation is primarily ethnographic. It describes the everyday experiences of African workers and treats their own perspectives of their working lives as central. Quantitative and qualitative data, collected from two samples drawn from the population in the housing area selected for study, are presented. It is argued that employment instability must be understood as a consequence of a web of interrelated circumstances and cannot be explained in terms of any one single causal factor. The following employment and employment-related circumstances are examined: workers' views of, and reactions to, wages and working conditions; problems with transport between places of work and home, and with workplace accommodation; conflicts of interest arising from domestic pressures undermining workers' ability to remain in a job; and the experience of joblessness. These various factors are then drawn together to show that workers do not perceive these factors in isolation from one another, but that they experience the oppressive conditions of their domestic and working lives as a totality. Any attempts to find ways to increase workers' job stability will have to look both within and beyond the workplace.en_ZA
dc.identifier.apacitationNiehaus, I. A. (1987). <i>Wage workers in a 'homeland township' : their experiences in finding, maintaining and losing employment</i>. (Thesis). University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Social Anthropology. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/22390en_ZA
dc.identifier.chicagocitationNiehaus, Isak Arnold. <i>"Wage workers in a 'homeland township' : their experiences in finding, maintaining and losing employment."</i> Thesis., University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Social Anthropology, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/22390en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationNiehaus, I. 1987. Wage workers in a 'homeland township' : their experiences in finding, maintaining and losing employment. University of Cape Town.en_ZA
dc.identifier.ris TY - Thesis / Dissertation AU - Niehaus, Isak Arnold AB - Workers domiciled in Qwaqwa, South Africa's smallest 'homeland', experience high rates of unemployment and job instability. Yet most terminations of employment are employee-instigated. This dissertation examines the reasons for employment instability among wage workers resident in a housing section in Phuthaditjhaba, the 'homeland's' only urban area. The approach adopted in the dissertation is primarily ethnographic. It describes the everyday experiences of African workers and treats their own perspectives of their working lives as central. Quantitative and qualitative data, collected from two samples drawn from the population in the housing area selected for study, are presented. It is argued that employment instability must be understood as a consequence of a web of interrelated circumstances and cannot be explained in terms of any one single causal factor. The following employment and employment-related circumstances are examined: workers' views of, and reactions to, wages and working conditions; problems with transport between places of work and home, and with workplace accommodation; conflicts of interest arising from domestic pressures undermining workers' ability to remain in a job; and the experience of joblessness. These various factors are then drawn together to show that workers do not perceive these factors in isolation from one another, but that they experience the oppressive conditions of their domestic and working lives as a totality. Any attempts to find ways to increase workers' job stability will have to look both within and beyond the workplace. DA - 1987 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 1987 T1 - Wage workers in a 'homeland township' : their experiences in finding, maintaining and losing employment TI - Wage workers in a 'homeland township' : their experiences in finding, maintaining and losing employment UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/22390 ER - en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11427/22390
dc.identifier.vancouvercitationNiehaus IA. Wage workers in a 'homeland township' : their experiences in finding, maintaining and losing employment. [Thesis]. University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Social Anthropology, 1987 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/22390en_ZA
dc.language.isoengen_ZA
dc.publisher.departmentSocial Anthropologyen_ZA
dc.publisher.facultyFaculty of Humanitiesen_ZA
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Cape Town
dc.subject.otherEthnologyen_ZA
dc.subject.otherUnemployed - South Africaen_ZA
dc.subject.otherUnemploymenten_ZA
dc.subject.otherSocial Anthropologyen_ZA
dc.titleWage workers in a 'homeland township' : their experiences in finding, maintaining and losing employmenten_ZA
dc.typeMaster Thesis
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dc.type.qualificationnameMSocScen_ZA
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