Publisher's Synopsis
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 marginalization and exclusion in the post-apartheid era? In order to answer these questions, this dissertation explores: the new democratic street trader organizations, 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 mobilization of street traders' struggles inadvertently brought together social movements with trade unions, emphatically signaling the potential reactivation of 'social movement unionism' in contemporary South Africa. Dissertation.
