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Recognizing the full costs of care? Compensation for families in South Africa’s silicosis class action
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Goldblatt, Beth and Rai, Shirin (2017) Recognizing the full costs of care? Compensation for families in South Africa’s silicosis class action. Social & Legal Studies, 27 (6). pp. 671-694. doi:10.1177/0964663917739455
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0964663917739455
Abstract
This article concerns recognition and compensation of the intimate, gendered work of caring by family members for workers who became ill with lung diseases as a result of poor labour conditions in the mines in South Africa. It focuses on a recent decision by a court in South Africa (Nkala and Others v. Harmony Gold Mining Company Limited and Others, 2016) that took the unusual step of acknowledging this care work and attempting to compensate it indirectly. The article combines insights from political economy and law within a feminist frame to develop an argument about compensation for social reproductive work to address the harm experienced by the carers of mineworkers. Using the theory of depletion through social reproduction, it suggests ways of understanding the costs of care in order to fully compensate the harms suffered by the carers. This is done with reference to a photographic essay by Thom Pierce called ‘The Price of Gold’ taken in the mineworkers’ homes after their discharge from work due to illness. The article argues that ideas of depletion should inform any consideration of compensation of people engaged in caring in a range of reparatory contexts.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor | ||||||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Politics and International Studies | ||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Industrial accidents, Caregivers -- Economic aspects -- South Africa, Silicosis -- Social aspects -- South Africa, Workers' compensation claims -- South Africa | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Social & Legal Studies | ||||||||
| Publisher: | Sage Publications Ltd. | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 0964-6639 | ||||||||
| Official Date: | 1 December 2017 | ||||||||
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| Volume: | 27 | ||||||||
| Number: | 6 | ||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 671-694 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1177/0964663917739455 | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
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