This paper attempts to deal with the question of what business and Human Resource practitioners can do in regard to the rather complex problem of workplace violence. It notes that the effects of traumatic experiences beyond the workplace may well express themselves within the working environment.
This paper is concerned with physical violence directed against people rather than property, as there is an identifiable trend towards more attacks against people over the last five or six years in South Africa. The result has been an escalation in criminal charges emanating from labour disputes.
This paper seeks to analyse the railway strike of 1987 from facets such as the collective bargaining and conflict escalation in the strike, personal profiles of the accused to the turning points and attitudes towards the non-participants.
This paper seeks to uncover the different forms of violence against domestic workers within their workplace, largely using the reports on the experiences of victims.
The 1989/90 SATS strike is regarded as one of the most bitter and bloody disputes in South African labour history. It was also one of the most complex disputes, deserving of a thorough analysis. This paper is a chronological description of the dispute, making preliminary observations. It is written from the perspective of the legal advisor to the trade union and, therefore, both a lawyer and a participant.
This paper attempts to analyse the kinds of responses by unions, community organisations, lawyers, and academics to the phenomenon of group violence which occurs in response to state violence in South Africa.