Journal articles

2024

Ponniah, U. (2024). We are religious, patriotic and self-sacrificial’: Baniya power, cohesion and wealth anxieties in India. Canadian Journal of Development Studies/Revue canadienne d'études du développement, 1-16.

Cottle, E. (2024). Fifty years ago, women led the Durban mass strikes. Review of African Political Economy. 

Salverda, T. (2024). The colour of wealth concentration: the defence of economic privilege and multicultural ideology in postcolonial Mauritius. Canadian Journal of Development Studies.

2023

Atria, J., Contreras, D. and Méndez, M.L., (2023) Tackling wealth accumulation in a context of social upheaval: the property tax in Chile. Canadian Journal of Development Studies.

Mazwi, F. and Chambati, W. (2023). Diversification of sugar production in Zimbabwe: wealth accumulation from below by outgrowers. The Canadian Journal of Development Studies.

Sklair, J. (2023), The win-win discourse of impact investing: legitimising accumulation for a new generation of Brazilian wealth elites. Canadian Journal of Development Studies. 

Anand, I., Thampi, A., and Vakulabharanam, V. (2023). Wealth inequality: the Indian case. Canadian Journal of Development  Studies.

Sachs, M., Ewinyu, A.K., and Olwethu, S. (2023) The government wage bill: Employment and compensation trends in South Africa 

Taylor, J. (2023) Just an energy transition? A gendered analysis of energy transition in Northern Cape, South Africa. Agenda

Mhlana, S., Moussie, R., Roever, S., and Rogan, M., Informal employment: what is missing from national economic recovery plans? UNU-WIDER Working Papers 2023/92

Maré, G. (2023) 'Think More Clearly than the State Allows': Rick Turner's Challenge to the Present. South African Historical Journal 

Mhlana, S. (2023) Precarious Work and the Gendered Individualisation of Risk in the South African Manufacturing Sector, 2002-2017. The Global Labour Journal 

Dawson, H. (2023) Faking it or making it: the politics of consumption and the precariousness of social mobility in South Africa. The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. 

Dawson, H. (2023) Father-Child (dis)connections: Expectations and Practices of Young un(der)employed Fathers in Johannesburg. Sage Journals.

Webster, E., Schmidt, V., Mhlana, S., and Forrest, K. (2023) ILO Working paper 86. Negotiations by workers in the informal economy 

2022

Dawson, H. (2022). Living, not just surviving: The politics of low-wage urban jobs in South Africa. Economy and Society. 

Castel-Branco, R. (2022). Le machamba, c'est pour la vie. Les contradictions de la paysanneerie au Mozambique, dans un context de précarité. Actuel Marx. 

Francis, D., Joseph, SJ., Sachs, M., and Valodia, I. (2022). Black Economic Empowerment in South Africa: themes and research directions. Transformation. 

Francis, D., and Valodia, I. (2022). Black Economic Empowerment in South Africa: introduction and a review of the labour market literature. Transformation. 

Mashilo, A., and Moothilal, R. (2022). Black Economic Empowerment in the automotive manufacturing industry: a case for productive capacity development transformation. Transformation. 

Cawe, A., Sachs, M., and Valodia, I. (2022). Dancing in Concert? Aligning Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment to sector strategies, structural transformation, and growth. Transformation. 

Cook, S., Agartan, T., and Kaasch, A. (2022). Forum Introduction: Revisiting Targeting and Universalism. Global Social Policy. 

Cook, S., and Staab, S. (2022). Introduction: 足球竞彩app排名: Lessons for gender-responsive recovery and transformation. Global Social Policy. 

Martinez Franzoni, J., and Cook, S. (2022). Seizing the opportunity to do things differently: Feminist ideas, policies and actors in UN Women’s ‘Feminist Plan for Sustainability and Social Justice’. Global Social Policy. 

Webster, E., and Masikane, F. (2022) I just want to survive report 2022 A comparative study of food courier riders in three African cities. Johannesburg. Friedrich Ebert Stiftung

2021

Francis, D., & Valodia, I. (2021). Inequality in the South African labour market: The political economy of the national minimum wage. Critical Social Policy. 

Webster, E., & Kenny, B. (2021). The return of the labour process: race, skill, and technology in South African labour studies. Work in the Global Economy. 

Castel-Branco, R., & Mapukata, S. (2021). Digitalisation and post-work utopias: A view from the global South. South African Labour Bulletin.

Webster, E. (2021). Informal workers and flexible organisation: Seizing the Covid moment. South African Labour Bulletin.

Webster, E., Ludwig, C., Masikane, F., & Spooner, D. (2021). Beyond traditional trade unionism: innovative worker responses in three African cities. Globalizations, 1-14.

Kenny, B and Webster, E. 2021 The return of the labour process: race, skill and technology in South African labour studies. Work and the Global Economy. 

Mashilo, A.M. and Webster, E. 2021. Upgrading in Automotive Global Production Networks: Workers' Power in South Africa. Journal of Labor and Society 24 (2021) 525-555

Mashilo, A. M. 2021 'Collective Bargaining During and After Apartheid: Economic and Social Upgrading in the Automobile Global Value Chains in South Africa', Book chapter in Economic and Social Upgrading in Global Value Chains: Comparative Analyses, Macroeconomic Effects, the Role of Institutions and Strategies for the Global South edited by Christina Teipen, Hansjorg Herr, Petra Dunhaupt, and Fabian Mehl

Bishoff, C., Masondo, T. and Webster, Webster, E. 2021 Workers’ participation at plant level: A South African case studies Economic and Industrial Democracy. Vol. 42 no 2

Mashilo, A.M. 2021 ‘Technological Revolution in the South African Automotive Manufacturing Industry and the Role of Labour’: Book chapter to be included in: South Africa Confronts the Fourth Industrial Revolution era—Challenges and Possibilities: Case Studies from key sectors edited by the Institute for Global Dialogue submitted Institute for Global Dialogue.

McGregor, W. and Webster, E. 2021. Building a regional solidarity network of transnational activists: an African case study. Tempo Social. Brazil

2020

Webster, E. and Forrest, K. 2020. Role of the ILO during and after apartheid. Labour Studies Journal.

Webster, E. Ludwig, C., Masikane, F. and Spooner, D. 2021 Beyond traditional trade unionism: innovative worker responses in three African cities. Globalisations 

Webster, E 2020, ‘The Uberisation of work: the challenge of regulating platform capitalism: a commentary’. International Review of Applied Economics. Volume 34. Pp 512-521 

Webster, E. 2000. ‘Rethinking the World of Work in Southern Africa: Building a Social Floor’, in Jan Fritz and Tina Uys (editors), Clinical Sociology in Southern   Africa. Cape Town: Juta Publishers. Pp183-200

Webster, E and Ludwig,C. (2023) Contesting Digital Technology through New Forms of Transnational Activism. The Global Labour Journal.

Webster, E. (2020). Inequality, the pitfalls, and the promise of liberation in Africa-Shadow of Liberation: Contestation and Compromise in the Economic and Social Policy of the African National Congress, 1943-1996, by Vishnu Padayachee & Robert Van Niekerk: book review essay. African Review of Economics and Finance, 12(1), 293-298.