Option 1: Workers striking at a clothing shop in newly independent and post-Apartheid Zambia
Background
In 1964 the people of the then-British-colony, Northern Rhodesia, declared independence and formed the country of Zambia. It moved quickly to put an end to the previous government’s policy of Apartheid, opening up all sorts of new social and economic opportunities for the African population. Around the same time a young Anthropologist named Bruce Kapferer began a study of a clothing shop in the Zambian town of Kabwe, offering a glimpse of the forces at work in this moment of social transformation (this work was published as Strategy and Transaction in an African Factory). While he was there the African workers at the Indian-owned factory would organize two strikes in order demand better pay and working conditions from their employers. Their first strike failed, but their second strike was successful in forcing ownership to ameliorate pay and work conditions. The Project Your research for this project will focus on the social network within the factory, and on the question of why the first strike failed and the second strike succeeded. To that end, there are two social networks for you to analyze. In a wonderful twist of fate, Kapferer collected the data for the first social network just before the first strike took place, and collected social network data for the factory a second time just before the second strike took place. Look for the characteristics of each network, and the differences between them, to understand what happened from the perspective of social network analysis. Write a 1250- to 1500-word report explaining why the workers succeeded in their second attempt at a strike, while their first failed to produce any change. Consider what advantages and disadvantages existed in each network structure. When you make a claim, support it with evidence. Be sure to address the full range of the course’s content in answering this question, as nearly all of it is relevant to the question at hand. Broad Subfields in Sociology that This Project addresses This is fundamentally a matter of social networks, social movements, and economic sociology. Depending on how creative you get it may also overlap with the sociology of race and the sociology of gender.
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