Ercüment Çelik (2010) Street Traders: A Bridge Between Trade Unions and Social Movements in Contemporary South Africa. Baden-Baden: Nomos Publishers.
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How much did the transition from apartheid to post-apartheid change the lives of the ‘truly disadvantaged’ in South Africa? How do these people struggle against their marginalisation and exclusion in post-apartheid era? This book seeks answers by exploring the new democratic street traders’ organisations, the shack-dwellers’ movement, their relations with trade unions and their alliance in the ‘World Class Cities For All’ Campaign on the way to the 2010 FIFA World Cup. The author explains how the mobilisation of street traders' struggles inadvertently brought together social movements with trade unions, emphatically signalling the potential reactivation of 'social movement unionism' in contemporary South Africa.
Ercüment Çelik’s ambitious study illustrates how the South Africa's disenfranchised reinvented linkages between social movements and the trade union movement through the spirited mobilisation and strategic inquests of their leadership. This book is essential reading for all socio-political enthusiasts fascinated by the reinvention of a new type of social movement unionism in the global south.
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Dr. Ercüment Çelik is researcher and lecturer in the Institute of Sociology at the University of Freiburg, Germany.
