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A Million Dollar Question 百万美元问题
Pub Date : 2023-08-28 DOI: 10.36615/the_thinker.v96i3.2671
Amy Tekié
It may be surprising that African countries stand out (with some exceptions) for giving domestic workers basic coverage under the labour law. Many countries worldwide have failed to meet this most basic requirement, and labour law protections are the critical foundation for activating the social and legal changes that are needed to professionalise the sector. Unfortunately, legal protections are not enough. A recent study on migrant domestic workers in the SADC region showed rampant informality across countries, resulting in a dearth of labour law enforcement (ILO, 2022). It is common knowledge that domestic work is under the radar, and employers are not held accountable to the law.
令人惊讶的是,非洲国家(除了一些例外)在劳动法下为家政工人提供基本保障方面表现突出。世界上许多国家未能满足这一最基本的要求,而劳动法保护是激活该部门专业化所需的社会和法律变革的关键基础。不幸的是,法律保护是不够的。最近一项关于南部非洲发展共同体地区移徙家政工人的研究表明,各国非正规行为猖獗,导致劳工执法缺乏(国际劳工组织,2022年)。众所周知,家务劳动是不受监管的,雇主不必对法律负责。
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In Conversation with Professor Jacklyn Cock, Author of Maids and Madams 与《女仆和夫人》的作者杰克林·考克教授对话
Pub Date : 2023-08-28 DOI: 10.36615/the_thinker.v96i3.2679
D. du Toit
David du Toit: Your book, Maids and Madams, is one of the seminal texts in domestic work literature in South Africa. What inspired you to write about domestic work during the apartheid era?
大卫·杜·托伊特:你的书《女仆和夫人》是南非家务文学的重要著作之一。是什么激发了你写种族隔离时期的家务?
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Resilience and Resistance Among Migrant Male Domestic Workers in South Africa 南非男性移徙家庭佣工的适应力与抵抗
Pub Date : 2023-08-28 DOI: 10.36615/the_thinker.v96i3.2677
D. du Toit
Despite the large body of scholarly research that has addressed the various challenges encountered by female domestic workers,there exists a notable gap in understanding the experiences of male domestic workers in South Africa. The present study seeks to bridge this gap by exploring the experiences of ten black African migrant male domestic workers in Johannesburg. Drawing upon Katz’s framework of disaggregated agency, encompassing resilience, reworking, and resistance strategies, the study demonstrates that in the absence of collective resistance through unionisation, male domestic workers employ resilience and reworking strategies to improve their material well-being. Decision-making processes regarding migration to South Africa, engaging in job-hopping, and engaging in multiple piece jobs are examples of the resilience and reworking strategies used by male domestic workers to improve their living conditions. This study shows that paid domestic work in South Africa, whether performed by men or women, is not withoutchallenges, but that male domestic workers exhibit agency by utilising various strategies to navigate and mitigate some of these challenges.
尽管有大量的学术研究解决了女性家庭佣工遇到的各种挑战,但在了解南非男性家庭佣工的经历方面存在显著差距。本研究试图通过探索十位非洲黑人移徙男性家庭佣工在约翰内斯堡的经历来弥合这一差距。根据卡茨的分解代理框架,包括弹性、再工作和抵抗策略,该研究表明,在没有通过工会化进行集体抵抗的情况下,男性家政工人采用弹性和再工作策略来改善他们的物质福利。移民到南非、跳槽和从事多件工作的决策过程都是男性家政工人用来改善生活条件的弹性和再工作策略的例子。这项研究表明,南非的有偿家务劳动,无论是男性还是女性,都不是没有挑战,但男性家庭佣工通过利用各种策略来应对和减轻这些挑战,从而表现出代理能力。
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Essop Pahad
Pub Date : 2023-08-28 DOI: 10.36615/the_thinker.v96i3.2670
L. Mpedi
Whilst many will speak today of the historic and invaluable contributions of Essop Pahad to our country’s liberation struggle and at the dawn of democracy, it is often forgotten that this came at great pain for him to live a life in exile, isolated from family and friends. Such was the often silent struggle that happened parallel to the struggle for freedom. Though this was an immensely politically active time for him, it was also incredibly taxing. It was in this time that Essop clung to the promise of a free and democratic South Africa. As the Greek tragedian Aeschylus once said: ‘I know how men in exile feed on dreams.’ So desperate was his dream for a better tomorrow that he worked tirelessly with members of the international community to bring attention to the plight of those he left behind. Throughout his life, he continued to cling onto this dream as he fought for justice and equity long beyond the advent of democracy. He once said: ‘Our march to a better life requires that each and every South African should put shoulders to the wheel – all of us as partners in transforming ours into a society that cares. We must know our rights and exercise them, in the same measure as we take on our collective responsibility to build South Africa into a nation of our dreams.’ 
虽然今天许多人会谈到埃索普·帕哈德对我国的解放斗争和民主的黎明所作的历史性和宝贵的贡献,但人们常常忘记,他是在与家人和朋友隔绝的流亡生活中经历了巨大痛苦才取得这一成就的。这就是与争取自由的斗争同时发生的往往是无声的斗争。虽然这是他在政治上非常活跃的时期,但也非常吃力。正是在这段时间里,埃索普坚持了建立一个自由民主的南非的承诺。正如希腊悲剧家埃斯库罗斯曾经说过的:“我知道被流放的人是如何以梦为食的。”“他对美好明天的梦想是如此绝望,以至于他不知疲倦地与国际社会成员一起工作,让人们关注他留下的那些人的困境。”在他的一生中,他一直坚持着这个梦想,在民主出现很久之后,他为正义和平等而战。他曾经说过:“我们向更美好的生活迈进,需要每一个南非人都肩负起责任——我们所有人都是合作伙伴,把我们的社会转变为一个关心他人的社会。”我们必须了解并行使我们的权利,就像我们承担集体责任,把南非建设成为我们梦想中的国家一样。”
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‘If I Can, We Can’ “如果我能,我们也能”
Pub Date : 2023-08-28 DOI: 10.36615/the_thinker.v96i3.2680
J. Fish
Myrtle Witbooi, a pioneering leader of the domestic worker movement, died on January 16 in Cape Town at age 75. Under South Africa’s apartheid rule, she began to organise women in the garage of her employer and went on to become president of the first global union led by women. For 52 years she advocated for the rights of domestic workers, upholding her presidency in both South Africa’s national union of domestic workers and the International Domestic Workers Federation, throughout her struggle with a rare form of bone cancer. Ms. Witbooi’s experience as a domestic worker under apartheid guided her life on the front lines of both a national and global movement to recognise and protect women once considered ‘servants’ without rights. She fought for domestic workers’ first legal protections in South Africa’s democracy, which set basic conditions of employment and allowed over 100,000 women to receive maternity and unemployment insurance over the past twenty years.
1月16日,家政工人运动的先驱领袖默特尔·威布伊在开普敦去世,享年75岁。在南非的种族隔离统治下,她开始在雇主的车库里组织妇女,并成为第一个由妇女领导的全球工会的主席。52年来,她一直倡导家政工人的权利,在她与一种罕见的骨癌作斗争期间,她一直担任南非全国家政工人工会和国际家政工人联合会的主席。维布伊女士在种族隔离制度下做家政工人的经历,指引她在一场承认和保护曾经被视为没有权利的“仆人”的全国和全球运动的第一线生活。在南非的民主制度下,她为家政工人争取了第一次法律保护,在过去的20年里,这一制度规定了基本的就业条件,并允许超过10万名妇女获得生育和失业保险。
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The ‘Platformisation’ of Domestic Work in South Africa 南非家政工作的“平台化”
Pub Date : 2023-08-28 DOI: 10.36615/the_thinker.v96i3.2678
Tengetile W. Nhleko
Digital platform technologies have brought about a new labour form in the occupation of domestic work, in which domestic cleaningwork is now being managed and organised virtually through an online platform, or ‘app’, operated by private technology companies and provided to householders on a convenient and on-demand basis. This paper analyses the emerging impact of this new form of ‘platform domestic work’ in South Africa’s domestic sector using an interpretivist case study done in Cape Town on ten platform domestic workers and their platform companies. Using evidence obtained through in-depth interviews and analysis of publishedcompany discourse material, this paper argues that far from formalising and modernising domestic work through the twin forces of commercialisation and digital platform technology, the phenomenon of platform domestic work is deepening informalisation in paid domestic work as a form of insecure ‘gig work’, and also through the widespread practice of platform leakage by domestic workers on the platform.
数字平台技术为家务劳动带来了一种新的劳动形式,家务清洁工作现在通过私人技术公司运营的在线平台或“应用程序”进行管理和组织,并以方便和按需的方式提供给家庭。本文分析了这种新形式的“平台家政”在南非家庭部门的新影响,使用了在开普敦对10名平台家政工人及其平台公司进行的解释主义案例研究。通过深入访谈和对已出版公司话语材料的分析获得的证据,本文认为,通过商业化和数字平台技术的双重力量,家政工作远非正规化和现代化,平台家政现象正在深化有偿家政工作的非正式化,作为一种不安全的“零工”形式,也通过家政工人在平台上广泛的平台泄漏实践。
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‘God Gave us Legs to Walk!’ “上帝给了我们走路的腿!””
Pub Date : 2023-08-28 DOI: 10.36615/the_thinker.v96i3.2675
M. Grundlingh
Domestic work is a major source of income for many Black African women in South Africa. The experience of domestic workers is mainly shaped along racial and class lines – this is a result of the remnants of the legacy of apartheid, where many Coloured and African women were dependent on employment in the domestic work sphere. This article considers the experiences of a group of Coloured female domestic workers in a coastal town in South Africa. Drawing on ten qualitative interviews, I show how their experiences are framed around issues of mobility – this includes moving to work and moving at work and the consequences of immobility in the world of work. Most research that deals with issues of mobility in domestic work focuses on migration patterns. This novel approach to understanding the notion of mobility for domestic workers contributes to the existing literature on domestic work in South Africa but extends the conceptualisation of movement beyond migration patterns. The article also makes a much-needed contribution to understanding the experience of domestic work in rural settings in South Africa. This is done by exploring the coping strategies that the participants employ to support themselves and their families. Networks and family ties form an essential component of the financial and emotional survival of this group of women. The role of social capital is also investigated as it plays an important role in forging trust and reciprocity among participants of this study.
家务劳动是南非许多非洲黑人妇女的主要收入来源。家务工人的经历主要是按种族和阶级界线形成的,这是种族隔离遗留下来的结果,许多有色人种和非洲妇女依赖于家务工作领域的就业。本文讲述了一群有色人种女工在南非一个沿海城镇的生活经历。通过十次定性访谈,我展示了他们的经历是如何围绕流动性问题构建的——这包括上班和在工作中移动,以及在工作世界中不动的后果。大多数关于家务流动问题的研究都集中在移徙模式上。这种理解家庭工人流动概念的新方法有助于南非现有的家庭工作文献,但将运动的概念化扩展到迁移模式之外。这篇文章也为理解南非农村家务工作的经验作出了急需的贡献。这是通过探索参与者用来支持自己和家人的应对策略来完成的。网络和家庭关系是这群妇女在经济和情感上生存的重要组成部分。社会资本在参与者之间建立信任和互惠的过程中发挥了重要作用,因此本文也对社会资本的作用进行了研究。
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South Africa-Sweden Relations 南非-瑞典关系
Pub Date : 2023-06-05 DOI: 10.36615/the_thinker.v95i2.2527
Sven Botha
Sweden’s support for the Anti-Apartheid Movement is well documented and has prompted some observers to comment that both states share a “special relationship.” And while some aspects of South Africa-Sweden Post-Apartheid Relations have been interrogated by scholars and covered in the media, a more generic and comprehensive account of South Africa-Sweden Post-Apartheid Relations, as provided in this article and this special issue as a whole, is missing. Using an analytical framework, of the author’s own design, that incorporates social, economic, and political indicators, this paper provides an appraisal of South Africa-Sweden Relations while simultaneously offering a conclusion to the special issue on South Africa-Sweden Relations. This paper argues that the aforementioned framework is necessary to glean a more comprehensive understanding of bilateral relations that the two states share. Furthermore, the rudimentary understanding of South Africa-Sweden Relation provides the foundation for increased research on South Africa-Sweden Relations and Africa-Nordic Relations more broadly.
瑞典对反种族隔离运动的支持有目共睹,一些观察人士因此评论说,两国之间有着“特殊关系”。虽然学者们对南非-瑞典后种族隔离关系的某些方面进行了质疑,媒体也对其进行了报道,但正如本文和本期特刊所提供的那样,对南非-瑞典后种族隔离关系的更一般、更全面的描述仍然缺失。本文使用作者自己设计的分析框架,将社会、经济和政治指标结合起来,对南非-瑞典关系进行了评估,同时对南非-瑞典关系特刊进行了总结。本文认为,上述框架对于更全面地了解两国之间的双边关系是必要的。此外,对南非-瑞典关系的初步认识为更广泛地研究南非-瑞典关系和非洲-北欧关系提供了基础。
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Gendered Institutions and Women’s Political Representation in Africa 非洲的性别机构和妇女政治代表
Pub Date : 2023-06-05 DOI: 10.5040/9780755637829
Lesego Motsage
Gendered institutions in this book are described as social structures, norms, and practices that maintain gender inequalities and stereotypes, often to the advantage of men. Many political systems in Africa are patriarchal, with traditional leadership structuresdominated by men. The book highlights the formal and informal political institutions that make it difficult for African women to gain access to political power or to have their voices heard within the African political establishment. Additionally, many of the rules and customs of African political institutions are biased against women and sometimes require candidates to have a certain level of education or financial autonomy that may be more difficult for women to attain. These gendered institutions have contributed to the under-representation of African women in politics. While there has been progress in recent years, women remain significantly underrepresented in African decision-making bodies such as African National Parliaments. This book has eight chapters, with each chapter representing a unique case study of a country in Africa. The eight African countries that the book focuses on are South Africa,Tanzania, Malawi, Zimbabwe, Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana, and Botswana.
在这本书中,性别制度被描述为维持性别不平等和刻板印象的社会结构、规范和实践,往往有利于男性。非洲的许多政治制度都是父权制的,传统的领导结构由男性主导。这本书强调了使非洲妇女难以获得政治权力或在非洲政治机构中发出自己声音的正式和非正式政治制度。此外,非洲政治机构的许多规则和习俗对妇女有偏见,有时要求候选人具有一定程度的教育或财政自主权,这对妇女来说可能更难达到。这些性别机构导致非洲妇女在政治中的代表性不足。虽然近年来取得了进展,但妇女在非洲国家议会等非洲决策机构中的代表性仍然严重不足。这本书有八章,每一章代表一个非洲国家的独特案例研究。书中重点介绍了南非、坦桑尼亚、马拉维、津巴布韦、尼日利亚、肯尼亚、加纳、博茨瓦纳等8个非洲国家。
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引用次数: 4
Gendered Institutions and Women's Political Representation in Africa 非洲的性别机构和妇女政治代表
Pub Date : 2023-06-05 DOI: 10.36615/the_thinker.v95i2.2528
Lesego Motsage
Gendered institutions in this book are described as social structures, norms, and practices that maintain gender inequalities and stereotypes, often to the advantage of men. Many political systems in Africa are patriarchal, with traditional leadership structuresdominated by men. The book highlights the formal and informal political institutions that make it difficult for African women to gain access to political power or to have their voices heard within the African political establishment. Additionally, many of the rules and customs of African political institutions are biased against women and sometimes require candidates to have a certain level of education or financial autonomy that may be more difficult for women to attain. These gendered institutions have contributed to the under-representation of African women in politics. While there has been progress in recent years, women remain significantly underrepresented in African decision-making bodies such as African National Parliaments. This book has eight chapters, with each chapter representing a unique case study of a country in Africa. The eight African countries that the book focuses on are South Africa,Tanzania, Malawi, Zimbabwe, Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana, and Botswana.
在这本书中,性别制度被描述为维持性别不平等和刻板印象的社会结构、规范和实践,往往有利于男性。非洲的许多政治制度都是父权制的,传统的领导结构由男性主导。这本书强调了使非洲妇女难以获得政治权力或在非洲政治机构中发出自己声音的正式和非正式政治制度。此外,非洲政治机构的许多规则和习俗对妇女有偏见,有时要求候选人具有一定程度的教育或财政自主权,这对妇女来说可能更难达到。这些性别机构导致非洲妇女在政治中的代表性不足。虽然近年来取得了进展,但妇女在非洲国家议会等非洲决策机构中的代表性仍然严重不足。这本书有八章,每一章代表一个非洲国家的独特案例研究。书中重点介绍了南非、坦桑尼亚、马拉维、津巴布韦、尼日利亚、肯尼亚、加纳、博茨瓦纳等8个非洲国家。
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