The Laziness Myth : Narratives of Work and the Good Life in South Africa /
When people cannot find good work, can they still find good lives? By investigating this question in the context of South Africa, where only 43 percent of adults are employed, Christine Jeske invites readers to examine their own assumptions about how work and the good life do or do not coincide. The...
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505 | 0 | 0 | |t Frontmatter -- |t Contents -- |t Acknowledgments -- |t Author's Note -- |t Introduction: "We want to live a good life" -- |t 1. "They don't want to work": The Laziness Myth -- |t 2. "You can't understand it": Employers' Perspectives of the Unemployed -- |t 3. "I need to respect that person and that person needs to respect me": The Respect Narrative -- |t 4. "Hustling is when you try to make a good life": The Hustling Narrative -- |t 5. "I'm just a laborer": The Laborer Narrative -- |t 6. "I have a good story": Possibilities -- |t Closing Thoughts: "Despite the contradictions" -- |t Notes -- |t Bibliography -- |t Index |
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520 | |a When people cannot find good work, can they still find good lives? By investigating this question in the context of South Africa, where only 43 percent of adults are employed, Christine Jeske invites readers to examine their own assumptions about how work and the good life do or do not coincide. The Laziness Myth challenges the widespread assumption that hard work determines success by tracing the titular "laziness myth," a persistent narrative that disguises the systems and structures that produce inequalities while blaming unemployment and other social ills on the so-called laziness of particular class, racial, and ethnic groups.Jeske offers evidence of the laziness myth's harsh consequences, as well as insights into how to challenge the laziness myth with other South African narratives of a good life. In contexts as diverse as rapping in a library, manufacturing leather shoes, weed-whacking neighbors' yards, negotiating marriage plans, and sharing water taps, the people described in this book will stimulate discussion on creative possibilities for seeking the good life in and out of employment, in South Africa and elsewhere. | ||
538 | |a Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. | ||
546 | |a In English. | ||
588 | 0 | |a Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022) | |
650 | 0 | |a Black people |x Employment |z South Africa. | |
650 | 0 | |a Blacks |x Employment |z South Africa. | |
650 | 0 | |a Happiness |z South Africa. | |
650 | 0 | |a Laziness |z South Africa. | |
650 | 0 | |a Quality of life |z South Africa. | |
650 | 0 | |a Unemployed |z South Africa |x Attitudes. | |
650 | 0 | |a Unemployment |x Social aspects |z South Africa. | |
650 | 0 | |a Well-being |z South Africa. | |
650 | 0 | |a Work ethic |z South Africa. | |
650 | 0 | |a Work |x Psychological aspects. | |
650 | 0 | |a Work |z South Africa |x Psychological aspects. | |
650 | 4 | |a Anthropology. | |
650 | 4 | |a Discrimination & Race Relations. | |
650 | 4 | |a Labor History. | |
650 | 7 | |a POLITICAL SCIENCE / Labor & Industrial Relations. |2 bisacsh | |
653 | |a the good life, causes of unemployment, racism in the workplace, unemployment in south africa, neoliberal entrepreneurial narrative. | ||
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