Abstract A critical equity and change enabler, literacy/education continues to prove very challenging to transform in South Africa. Having been a major apartheid resource through Bantu Education in entrenching South Africa‟s existing two worlds, business intervention in this crucial sector is the overriding interest of this research. How corporate social responsibility in education, assisted by public policy, reinforces inequality in the South African society, even as it attempts to alleviate poverty, is the thrust of the argument here around which many questions evolve. Some of the questions to which this thesis attempts to offer answers, therefore, are: What informs how business invests in education? How is public policy not an enabler of business investment in education? The objective is to determine the extent to which business investment in literacy/education can empower meaningful change in a market-driven South African society. The argument reiterated in this thesis is that Corporate Social Investment (CSI) in education has the potential to be a strong change driver. Unfortunately, its current positioning in the Broad-based Black Economic Empowerment (BB-BEE) strategy is weak and its effect on change equally weak. The extent to which CSI in literacy can facilitate transformation in South Africa is highly dependent on the elimination of the many challenges beyond the scope of business endeavour. The challenges include the low weighting of CSI in the BEE agenda which is a hindrance to mind-set change about the relevance of education to South Africa‟s transformation. Employing the qualitative method, using elite interviewing, and relying on written records, this thesis starts off by finding the South African definition of the word Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) vis-à-vis global definitions. While Corporate Social Investment (CSI), it was discovered, is the preferred word in the private sector, findings here reveal that irrespective of what it is called in South Africa, CSR or CSI, both terms are fundamentally the same because, more in South Africa than anywhere else, the moral values that drive CSR or CSI are the same. That is, social justice, equity, and transformation. In order to determine its potency in the change process, a cursory assessment of CSI in the various sectors of education reinforces the place of the definition in that process. As an „investment‟, CSI is driven by market forces. Inherent in these forces are the inequalities that motivate capitalism and CSI is not insulated from those forces. Findings here emphasise that CSI, as yet another capitalist means of intervention in education, is thus severely challenged to be more than a tip of the ice-berg in the nation‟s change process. Very importantly, this thesis shows how paradoxically, public policy through the DTI Codes of Conduct for BB-BEE further disempowers CSI in education. As a “residual element” with an insignificant weighting on the BEE Scorecard, this research argues that legislation diminishes the importance of education as an empowerment driver. The inadequate creation of jobs further makes the benefit of education to transformation even less stimulating. It concludes that although CSR or CSI has enormous potential to drive change, the BEE legislation, the conceptualisation of CSR, and other micro issues evolving around poverty conspire to limit the extent to which CSI can empower change.

A presente dissertação objetiva investigar, relatar e analisar as ações culturais e artísticas promovidas pelo grupo de teatro Dolores Boca Aberta Mecatrônica De Artes. A pesquisa mostra, por meio do relato pessoal de um dos integrantes do grupo, como o coletivo organiza sua estrutura de funcionamento. Aqui são apontados conceitos estruturantes para a filosofia do grupo, como as ideias de Teatro Mutirão e Trabalhador-Artista, além de um levantamento pedagógico de como se deram a construção e apresentação da terceira encenação do grupo, Sombras Dançam Neste Incêndio - Peça Curta em Dois Atos. Dentro das análises, destaca-se a experiência da construção de um teatro feito de árvores, preparado coletivamente pelos próprios espectadores junto com os atores do grupo, o qual chamamos de Arena Arbórea. A perspectiva do trabalho do grupo Dolores Boca Aberta aponta para questões acerca de organização social, debate político, arte e resistência, agitação e propaganda e discussão de modos de produção. / This thesis aims to investigate, report and analyze the cultural or artistic activities promoted by the Dolores Boca Aberta Mecatrônica de Artes Theater Group. The research shows, through the personal report of one of the members, how the group organizes its own operating structure. Some of the structuring concepts of the group\'s philosophy are described and discussed, as well as the ideas of the Task Force theater artistic-workers and a pedagogical survey of the construction and presentation of the third production of the group, \"Shadows dance within this fire - a short play in two acts\". Within the analysis we highlight the experience of the construction of a theatrical space surrounded by trees and called Arboreal Arena, which is collectively prepared by spectators and by the actors of the group. The perspective of the group\'s work points out to questions about social organization, political debate, art and resistance, agitation and propaganda, and the discussion about the means of production.

A presente dissertação objetiva investigar, relatar e analisar as ações culturais e artísticas promovidas pelo grupo de teatro Dolores Boca Aberta Mecatrônica De Artes. A pesquisa mostra, por meio do relato pessoal de um dos integrantes do grupo, como o coletivo organiza sua estrutura de funcionamento. Aqui são apontados conceitos estruturantes para a filosofia do grupo, como as ideias de Teatro Mutirão e Trabalhador-Artista, além de um levantamento pedagógico de como se deram a construção e apresentação da terceira encenação do grupo, Sombras Dançam Neste Incêndio - Peça Curta em Dois Atos. Dentro das análises, destaca-se a experiência da construção de um teatro feito de árvores, preparado coletivamente pelos próprios espectadores junto com os atores do grupo, o qual chamamos de Arena Arbórea. A perspectiva do trabalho do grupo Dolores Boca Aberta aponta para questões acerca de organização social, debate político, arte e resistência, agitação e propaganda e discussão de modos de produção. / This thesis aims to investigate, report and analyze the cultural or artistic activities promoted by the Dolores Boca Aberta Mecatrônica de Artes Theater Group. The research shows, through the personal report of one of the members, how the group organizes its own operating structure. Some of the structuring concepts of the group\'s philosophy are described and discussed, as well as the ideas of the Task Force theater artistic-workers and a pedagogical survey of the construction and presentation of the third production of the group, \"Shadows dance within this fire - a short play in two acts\". Within the analysis we highlight the experience of the construction of a theatrical space surrounded by trees and called Arboreal Arena, which is collectively prepared by spectators and by the actors of the group. The perspective of the group\'s work points out to questions about social organization, political debate, art and resistance, agitation and propaganda, and the discussion about the means of production.

In this thesis I interrogate the possibility of 'willing and social' work participation in industrial organisation. I draw on Habermas's (1976, 1979, 1984 & 1987) work to synthesise marxist and weberian ideas, and to derive a socio -cultural or cultural Marxist perspective on Capitalism. From this position I highlight the limitations of social action in theories of organisation and work. Moreover, I theoretically derive a model of work participation that acknowledges broader orientations to work. I interrogate that model of work participation in a study of four dominant forms of industrial organisation. Those organisations are SEQEB the South East Queensland Energy Board, Eagle Boy Pizzas in Queensland, the New South Sugar Milling Cooperative Ltd, and Budge -Ellis Staff Co-operative. Gathering data for this study involved both primary and secondary research. I used a comparative and longitudinal field research approach, unstructured interviews with an interview guide, and the collection of documents recommended by interviewees. I interviewed people working in the organisations and relevant government agencies. My research involved travel in Queensland and New South Wales, Australia. Ultimately, I produce a sociologically informed model for the establishment of 'willing and social' work participation. I conclude work participation exists within the context of capitalism, and social relations - either formally free or free; that work participation is directly influenced by rational configurations of the world of work comprising economic, political and social worldviews; and I argue the dominance of a worldview depends on whether the political action premises of buffering and shoring successfully neutralise competing worldviews; and whether the moral dictums or espoused values of work are prescribed or invoked and result in the exploitation or deployment of internal values. My thesis points in the direction of further work on co-operative forms of organisation and work and their commonweal ideologies. In particular, my findings demonstrate a crowding out of co-operative forms and ideologies, not only by capitalist forms but also by trade union collectives. The type of research I suggest has the potential to increase the legitimation of co-operative forms of organisation. Although, the Australian co-operative movement has many achievements there remains the problem of establishing a socially progressive rationality that makes practical or operational sense to people at work. The emancipator ideal of willing and social work participation is intended to epitomise the goals of the enlightenment project, and to lead in that direction.