The Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC)

Found 39 titles
Equitable Rural Change

Equitable rural socioeconomic change
Land | Climate dynamics | Technological Innovation

More and more of global economic wealth and decision-making power rests with fewer and fewer people, while acute socio-economic inequities continue to afflict large rural communities in Africa, Latin America and Asia. Land inequalities remain a burning question for rural communities.

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Format : 240mm x 168mm (Soft Cover)
Pages : 256
ISBN 13 : 978-0-7969-2532-9
Publish Year : March 2019
Rights : World Rights
Price R 280.00
Innovation Policy

Innovation policy at the intersection
Global debates and local experiences

Worldwide, countries have to respond to local and global socio-technological shifts and needs, specifically the transformations wrought by a rapidly shifting understanding of the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

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Format : 240mm x 168mm (Soft Cover)
Pages : 168
ISBN 13 : 978-0-7969-2591-6
Publish Year : 2020
Rights : World Rights
Price R R180.00
Opening Sa Economy

Opening the Economy
Barriers to Entry and Competition

What does it take for entrepreneurs to be effective competitors? What are the factors affecting entry and participation in sectors where there are historically strong incumbent firms? Opening the South African Economy brings to light the challenges of concentration, inequality and exclusion in different sectors of the South African economy.

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Format : 240mm x 168mm (Soft Cover)
Pages : 272
ISBN 13 : 978-0-7969-2589-3
Publish Year : March 2020
Rights : World Rights
Price R R250.00
Skills For The Future

Skills for the future
New research perspectives

How do actors in the educational field respond to the changing skills demands of the future? Research teams from the Labour Market Intelligence Partnership (LMIP) undertook a set of experimental and innovative case studies to improve our understanding of how current research intersects with a rapidly changing future.

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Format : 240mm x 168mm (Soft Cover)
Pages : 192
ISBN 13 : 978-0-7969-2436-0
Publish Year : March 2019
Rights : World Rights
Price R 195.00
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Alternatives to Privatization
Public Options for Essential Services in the Global South

Critics of privatisation are often told they present no alternatives. This book takes up that challenge, proposing conceptual models for what constitutes an alternative to privatisation and analyses what makes them successful (or not), backed up by empirical data on creative public service initiatives in over 40 countries in the Global South. This groundbreaking study provides a robust platform for comparisons across regions and sectors, with a focus on health, water and electricity. Alternatives to Privatisation is a compelling study and has been written by leading academics, practitioners and activists in the field.

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Format : 240mm x 168mm
Pages : 532
ISBN 10 : 978-07969-2377-6
ISBN 13 : 978-07969-2377-6
Publish Year : 2012
Rights : Africa Rights Only
Price R 395.00
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At Full Speed the Tiger Cubs Stumbled
Lessons from South East Asia about sustainable public service delivery

This publication examines best practices in public sector service delivery through a comparative analysis of Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, the Philippines and Indonesia. The book, which will be of interest to scholars, decision makers and informed members of the public, concludes with a general model of strategic governance.

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Format : 148mm x 210mm (Soft Cover)
Pages : 212
ISBN 10 : 0-7969-1929-1
ISBN 13 : 978-07969-1929-8
Publish Year : 2000
Rights : World Rights
Price R 187.00
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Attitudes to work and social security in South Africa

This paper presents findings from a module in the HSRC's 2006 South African Social Attitudes Survey that was designed by the Centre for the Analysis of South African Social Policy at the University of Oxford. Respondents were asked for their views on issues relating to the importance of work and the relationship between social grants and employment. The findings demonstrate a strong attachment to the labour market among the unemployed, support for more financial assistance for poor people including those who are unable to find work, and no evidence that social grants in South Africa foster a 'dependency culture'.

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Format : 280mm x 210mm (Soft Cover)
Pages : 28
ISBN 10 : 0-7969-2219-5
ISBN 13 : 978-07969-2219-9
Publish Year : 2008
Rights : World Rights
Price R 98.00
Brics Cover

The BRICS in Africa: Promoting development?

Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa (BRICS) nations have become a strong engine of South-South Cooperation. The most significant outcome of the emergence of BRICS is the shift they have brought to the balance of power in global affairs.

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Format : 168mm x 240mm (Soft Cover)
Pages : 486
ISBN 13 : 978-0-7969-2637-1
Publish Year : February 2023
Rights : World Rights
Price R R295 |$ 17 | 14
City Of Broken Dreams

City of Broken Dreams
Myth-making, nationalism and the university in an African rust belt city

City of Broken Dreams brings the global debate about the urban university to bear on the realities of South African rust-belt cities through a detailed case study of the Eastern Cape motor city of East London, a site of significant industrial job losses over the past two decades.

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Format : 235mm x 168mm (Soft Cover)
Pages : 320
ISBN 13 : 978-0-7969-2454-4
Publish Year : January 2019
Rights : Worldwide rights, excluding USA and US territories
Price R 350.00
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Confronting the Region
A profile of Southern Africa

This profile provides an understanding of the main developmental and institutional challenges that confront southern Africa. The authors highlight the political, economic and social conditions in the region and identify common trends. The paper also reviews the progress made in the promotion of greater regional integration.

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Format : 148mm x 210mm (Soft Cover)
Pages : 64
ISBN 10 : 0-7969-2060-5
ISBN 13 : 978-07969-2060-7
Publish Year : 2004
Rights : World Rights
Price R 98.00
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COSATUS Contested Legacy
South African trade unions in the second decade of democracy

Images of striking COSATU workers, singing, marching and toyi-toying are a familiar sight for most South Africans and external observers of the country's politics. Similarly, COSATU's feisty general secretary, Zwelinzima Vavi has become a household name, commanding respect and admiration among millions and loathing and fear among his enemies and those who are on the receiving end of his fiery political oratory. But how much do we know about what COSATU workers think about their workplaces, their unions, politics and the economy? What influences COSATU members' decisions to vote for a particular political party? Why has COSATU women members' support for the ANC declined? Why do some union members think there may be good reasons to assault non-strikers and scabs during strikes? What do unionised workers think of service delivery and what role did they play in the recent spate of service delivery protests? These and many other questions are examined in this volume which is based on the fourth run of the COSATU Workers' Survey conducted a few months before the 2009 elections. Contrary to stereotypes reproduced in the media and other public platforms which portray trade union members as a herd led by all-powerful 'union bosses', A Contested Legacy deftly presents a picture of a multifaceted organisation whose members are steeped in the traditions of internal democracy, leadership accountability and mandated decision-making. But these traditions are not static. They are fiercely contested among different groups and categories of union members women and men; migrant and urban workers; skilled and unskilled workers; blue collar and white collar and professional workers; permanent and part-time and casual workers.

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Format : 210mm x 148mm (Soft Cover)
Pages : 328
ISBN 10 : 978-07969-2395-0
ISBN 13 : 978-07969-2395-0
Publish Year : 2012
Rights : Africa Rights Only
Price R 295.00
Creative Cities

Creative Cities in Africa: Critical Architecture and Urbanism
Critical Architecture and Urbanism

The contemporary notion of the ‘creative city’, connected to present-day regimes of digital urban creative (or smart) cities in neoliberal, city branding, place marketing, digital marketing nomads, is a dominant trope of international progress and development, and there has been a surprisingly positive, yet often uncritical uptake of the discourses of the 4th Industrial Revolution. Buzz words abound in city studies such as resilience, sustainability, innovation, and inequality, yet these are all too often framed within scientific, technical and political economy debates. As editors, we are interested in how these issues seldom appear as carefully considered questions integrated with scholarship around the social and especially the aesthetic.

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Format : 168mm x 240mm
Pages : 214
ISBN 13 : 978-0-7969-2648-7
Publish Year : February 2024
Rights : World Rights
Price R R250(TBC)