TY - BOOK ID - 78530729 TI - Socio-economic rights in South Africa : symbols or substance? AU - Langford, Malcolm AU - Cousins, Ben AU - Dugard, Jackie AU - Madlingozi, Tshepo PY - 2014 SN - 1139888870 1107241367 1107250951 1107250129 113910859X 1107247632 1107248469 9781107250123 9781139108591 9781107021143 1107021146 9781107546226 1107546222 PB - N.Y. Cambridge University Press DB - UniCat KW - Human rights KW - Civil rights KW - Social justice KW - Civil society KW - Sociological jurisprudence. KW - Law KW - Law and society KW - Society and law KW - Sociology of law KW - Jurisprudence KW - Sociology KW - Law and the social sciences KW - Equality KW - Justice KW - Sociological jurisprudence KW - E-books KW - Economic law KW - Social law. Labour law KW - South Africa KW - General and Others UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78530729 AB - The embrace of socio-economic rights in South Africa has featured prominently in scholarship on constitution making, legal jurisprudence and social mobilisation. But the development has attracted critics who claim that this turn to rights has not generated social transformation in practice. This book sets out to assess one part of the puzzle and asks what has been the role and impact of socio-economic strategies used by civil society actors. Focusing on a range of socio-economic rights and national trends in law and political economy, the book's authors show how socio-economic rights have influenced the development of civil society discourse and action. The evidence suggests that some strategies have achieved material and political impact but this is conditional on the nature of the claim, degree of mobilisation and alliance building, and underlying constraints. ER -