People want to work, yet most have to labour: Towards decent work in South African supply chains

Abstract

The rights of labour have been described as “claims of reciprocity for the reality of being labour”. For over 12 million unemployed South Africans the possibility of labour is denied, and those who labour informally increasingly enjoy limited “claims of reciprocity” despite wide-reaching labour and employment laws and the inclusion of justiciable labour rights in the Constitution.