Self-directed work teams in a post-apartheid gold mine: perspectives from the rockface
SOURCE: Beyond the apartheid workplace: studies in transition
OUTPUT TYPE: Chapter in Monograph
PUBLICATION YEAR: 2005
TITLE AUTHOR(S): T.S.Phakathi
SOURCE EDITOR(S): E.Webster, K.Von Holdt
KEYWORDS: MINE WORKERS, MINING AND MINERALS INDUSTRY, POST APARTHEID SOUTH AFRICA, SKILLS DEVELOPMENT, TRAINING
Print: HSRC Library: shelf number 3370
HANDLE: 20.500.11910/7385
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/7385
OUTPUT TYPE: Chapter in Monograph
PUBLICATION YEAR: 2005
TITLE AUTHOR(S): T.S.Phakathi
SOURCE EDITOR(S): E.Webster, K.Von Holdt
KEYWORDS: MINE WORKERS, MINING AND MINERALS INDUSTRY, POST APARTHEID SOUTH AFRICA, SKILLS DEVELOPMENT, TRAINING
Print: HSRC Library: shelf number 3370
HANDLE: 20.500.11910/7385
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/7385
If you would like to obtain a copy of this Research Output, please contact Hanlie Baudin at researchoutputs@hsrc.ac.za.
Abstract
This chapter examines an attempt to develop a 'new mine worker' for a new workplace culture in a South African gold mine. The chapter suggests that there are two ways of thinking about relationship between work and training. The chapter concludes by arguing that any training designed to develop a new miner must be based on the recognition and elaboration of these tacit skills and the systematic articulation of the existing occupational culture.-
Related Research Outputs:
- Skills analysis in the mining and minerals sector
- Analysis of workplace skills plans and training reports: mining and minerals sector
- Structural inequality still characterises work in the mining sector
- Skills development strategy initiative (SDSI) support programme: a knowledge and skills profile of registered skills development facilitators in the mining and minerals sector
- EU parliamentary support programme: members' training and support programme evaluation
- Shifting understandings of skills in South Africa: overcoming the historical imprint of a low skills regime
- Introduction: the shifting understandings of skills in South Africa since industrialisation
- The National Skills Development Strategy: a new institutional regime for skills formation in post-apartheid South Africa
- Life and work skills and their contribution to education and training debates
- The developmental state, two economies, and the implications for skills development in the public sector: conceptual issues
- Employee training in South African private enterprises: findings from the national skills survey of 2003
- Editorial
- The Theta population: a descriptive study of needs in relation to skills training delivery
- Introduction
- Skills development: empowerment from below?: an education, training and employment perspective 1994-2004
- Demand for designated groups with formal post-school qualifications: 1998-2005
- Education, growth, aid and development: towards education for all
- Preface
- Training stepped up: achievements and new challenges
- A strong desire for certification