2 - ‘Spaces of Resistance’– African workers at Shoprite in Maputo and Lusaka
Corresponding Author(s) : Darlene Miller
Afrique et développement,
Vol. 31 No 1 (2006): Afrique et développement
Résumé
La réintégration de l’Afrique du Sud au sein de l’Afrique Australe depuis 1994 s’est accompagnée d’une recrudescence des investissements de sociétés sud- africaines dans certains pays africains. L’émergence de nouveaux centres commerciaux est l’une des conséquences visibles de ce développement post- apartheid. Cet article porte sur les revendications régionales et la résistance régionale des travailleurs des filiales étrangères de Shoprite, une multinationale sud-africaine spécialisée dans la vente au détail. Deux centres commerciaux de Shoprite en Zambie (Manda Hill) et au Mozambique (Centro Commercial) sont pris comme études de cas. Cet article compare l’expérience des travailleurs de Shoprite (une chaîne sud-africaine de supermarché alimentaire, le plus grand spécialiste africain de la vente au détail) dans deux villes : Maputo, au Mozambique et Lusaka, en Zambie, en étudiant les variations et les similitudes au niveau des réactions des travailleurs envers leur environnement de travail sud-africain. Tandis que les attentes zambiennes « en matière de modernité » se sont muées en désillusionnement, les travailleurs mozambicains, eux, considèrent l’investissement sud-africain comme un passage nécessaire vers la reprise économique. J’affirme dans cet article qu’une nouvelle dynamique régionale est en train de changer les expériences professionnelles des travailleurs africains, ouvrant ainsi un nouvel « espace d’espoir » au sein de cette région. Les corporations multinationales sud-africaines de vente au détail constituent des agents majeurs d’un nouvel imaginaire régional chez les travailleurs de la vente au détail, dans l’Afrique Australe post-apartheid.
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Les références
Arrighi, G., Silver, B., and Brewer, B., 2003, ‘Industrial Convergence and the Persistence of the
North South Divide’, Studies in Comparative International Development, 38, 1, pp. 3 31.
Bergquist, C., 1984, Labor in Latin America: Comparative Essays on Chile, Argentina, Venezuela, and
Colombia, California: Sage.
Berlanstein, L.R. ed., 1993, Rethinking Labor History, Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press.
Chakrabarty, D., 1989, Rethinking Working Class History: Bengal, 1890-1940, Princeton, Princeton University Press.
Clarke, M., 2000, ‘Checking Out and Cashing Up’, Paper presented to the Trade and Industry Policy
Secretariat, Muldersdrift, Annual Forum;
Co per, F., 1996, Decolonization and African Society. The Labor Question in
French and British Africa, Cambridge; Cambridge University Press.
Harvey, D., 1999, Limits to Capital, New York: Blackwell.
Harvey, D., 2003, The New Imperialism, Oxford: Oxford University Press. Hirschman, A.O., 1981, ‘The
Changing Tolerance for Income Inequality in the
Course of Economic Development’, in Essays in Trespassing, Cambridge University Press.
Kenny, B., 2001, ‘We Are Nursing These Jobs: The Impact of Labour Market Flexibility on South
African Retail Sector Workers’, in In: N. Newman, J. Pape & H. Jansen (eds). Is there an
alternative? South African workers confronting globalisation, Cape Town: Ilrig.
Kenny, B. and Webster, E., 1998, ‘Eroding the Core: Flexibility and the Re- Segmentation of the
South African Labour Market’, Paper presented at the XIVth World Congress of Sociology,
International Sociological Association, Montreal, 26 July–August.
Kenny, B., 2003, ‘Work Restructuring in Food Retailing: the Long Transition to A Market Hegemony’,’
Paper presented at the Wolpe Seminar, Johannesburg, 24–26 June.
Miller, D., 2005, ‘New regional imaginaries in post-Apartheid Southern Africa – retail workers at a
shopping mall in Zambia’, in The Journal of Southern African Studies, 31(1), pp.117-145.
Perrot, M., 1986, ‘On the Formation of the French Working Class’, in I. Katznelson and A. R.
Zolberg, eds., Working Class Formation. Nineteenth Century Patterns in Western Europe and the
United States, New Jersey, Oxford: Princeton University Press, p. 97.
Rees, R., 1997, ‘Flexible Labour: Meeting the Challenge’, South African Labour Bulletin, 21, 5.
Sewell, W., 1993, ‘Toward a Post Materialist Rhetoric for Labor History’ in Berlanstein, ed.,
Rethinking Labor History, pp. 15-38.
Silver, B., 2003, Forces of Labor, Workers,‘ Movements and Globalization since 1870, Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, pp. 22–23.
Simon, D, 2001, ‘Trading Spaces: Imagining and Positioning the A New South Africa within the
Regional and Global Economies’, International Affairs, 77, 2, pp. 377-405.
Thompson, E. P., 1966, The Making of the English Working Class, New York: Vintage Books.
Valodia, I., 1989, ‘Flexibility in the Retail Industry’, Unpublished report, Durban,Trade Union Research Project.