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Rather than simply evaluating the impact of government policies on women in Zimbabwe, the author tries to show the context in which policies are undertaken - the social mechanisms that affect women and the way these mechanisms are being changed or reinforced by the new government. This will clarify the ways in which Zimbabwe's ruling party has attempted to change women's position without challenging the existing gender hierarchy and will illustrate some of the ways in which Zimbabwean women have begun to stuggle for their own emancipation

This essay, written in memory of Erik Olin Wright (1947–2019), explores Wright's shift from a decades-long effort to map class structures in industrial societies to a search for paths to a more egalitarian future, pointing to the key role of feminist theory in that shift.

With mobile capital & global markets under globalization, new approaches to workers' rights are needed that replace state-centered workplace regulations with international ones. Different proposals to this end refer to the Sullivan Principles, corporate codes of conduct to monitor American subsidiaries in South Africa over the last 20 years. The evolution & implementation of the Sullivan Principles in South Africa between 1977-1994 are charted. Evaluation of conduct code monitoring fell short & the framework collapsed when Reverend Leon Sullivan himself withdrew. The Sullivan Principles cannot be considered absolutely good, but rather illustrate the problems with privatized, voluntaristic codes of conduct. A better approach than codes of conduct might be international improvement of inspections & labor law enforcement. References. M. Pflum

This article examines the construction and implementation of the Sullivan Principles, a two-decade effort to use corporate codes of conduct to improve the behavior of multinational corporations in South Africa under apartheid. Without organized social movement pressure, corporations would not have agreed to adopt the code, and corporate compliance required sustained pressure from the anti-apartheid movement. The system's independent monitoring process was problematic, and managers' definitions of "good corporate citizenship" were more guided by monitors'emphases than by substantive concerns. Based on the historic case, the article raises questions about the voluntaristic, stateless character of transnational corporate codes of conduct and questions whether such codes offer a viable strategy for improving working conditions.

Created as a result of gendered mobilization within the anti-apartheid movement, the South African Commission on Gender Equality represents an unusual experiment in feminist intervention, & in the construction of gendered citizenship. But it faces difficult challenges, starting with the problem of how best to define "women's interests." Based on an ethnographic study of the Commission, this paper explores the processes through which the Commission has set priorities, & discusses some areas of tension within the Commission. 11 References. Adapted from the source document.