A research report submitted to the Faculty of Humanities, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Masters of Arts in Anthropology, Johannesburg 2015 / Research in the mining community of Carletonville focused on how individuals negotiate and
contest different value orientations in trying to construct a workable moral economy. Based on
in-depth qualitative interviews and observations of respondents from lower and higher wage
classes, the report deconstructs the elements of differential value sets that are redefining and
sometimes destabilizing the moral economy and underlining views of inequality. Wage disputes
are seen not only as mine workers' expressions of economic injustice but perhaps more
crucially as a form of control and protection of their craft and status. The dominance of global
economic governance and decision-making is leading to more acute internal divergences but
can also be a starting point for a discussion about the impact of conflicts in social values. / XL2018
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:wits/oai:wiredspace.wits.ac.za:10539/24593 |
| Date | January 2015 |
| Creators | Sheerin, Anne Marshall |
| Source Sets | South African National ETD Portal |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
| Format | Online resource (vii, 95 leaves), application/pdf, application/pdf, application/pdf |
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