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A reasonable negotiation? Workplace‐based unionists' subjectivities, wage negotiations, and the day‐to‐day life of an ethical‐political project
2021
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
This article analyses how, through adopting responsibility for their co-workers' livelihoods, workplace-based unionists shaped Zambian mining capitalism. I argue that union branch executives learnt that they could best assist their co-workers through offering them financial services and through co-operation with company HR. During wage negotiations, unionists drew strength from this understanding, encouraging them to see ever-decreasing salaries as market-driven, and discouraging the militancy
doi:10.1111/1467-9655.13420
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