Journal articles
Researchers at the SCIS publish widely in a range of accredited journals. Here is a selection of the latest work by our research team.
2024
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: 沙巴体育官网_2024欧洲杯博彩app@: 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.
Webster, E., & O'Brien, R. (2020). Ten Years of the Global Labour Journal: Reflecting on the Rise of the New Global Labour Studies. Global Labour Journal, 11(1).
Webster, E. (2020). The Uberisation of work: the challenge of regulating platform capitalism. A commentary. International Review of Applied Economics, 1-10.
Webster, E., and Forest, K. 2020. The Role of the ILO during and after Apartheid. Labour Studies Journal: 0160449X20967098.
Webster, E., and Ludwig, C. 2020. Decent Work for All: Rethinking Decent Work in the Context of South Africa. Soziapolitik. Vol 2/2020.
Webster, E. (2020) "Revisiting the legacy of Neil Aggett." Transformation: Critical Perspectives on Southern Africa 103, no. 1 (2020): 131-143.
2019
Espi, G., Francis, D., and Valodia, I. 2019. Gender inequality in the South African labour market: insights from the Employment Equity Act data. Agenda. Vol. 33 (4) 44-61
Webster, A. and Webster, E. (2019). “Photo-essay: Jozi, the Precarious City of Gold. Global Dialogue 9.2, pp.50-5
Francis, D., Roberts, G. and Valodia, I. (2019). South African Manufacturing Firms in Transition. International Review of Applied Economics, vol. 33 (1) 71-92
Francis, D., and Webster, E. (2019). Poverty and Inequality in South Africa: critical reflections. Development Southern Africa, vol. 36 (6) 788-802
Francis, D., and Webster, E. (2019). Inequality in South Africa. Development Southern Africa, vol. 36(6) 733-734
Mosoetsa, S., and Francis, D. (2019). Framing Poverty and Inequality Studies in South Africa. Transformation 101
Webster, E. and Francis, D. (2019). The Paradox of Inequality in South Africa: a challenge from the workplace. Transformation 101
Schmalz, S, Ludwig, C and Webster, E. 2019. Power Resources and Global Capitalism, Global Labour Journal, (10)1
Webster, E. and Englert, T. (2019). New Dawn or end of labour? From East Rand to Ekurhuleni, Globalizations, 17 (2)
Webster, E and Forrest, K. (2019). Precarious work: Experimenting with new forms of representation, South African labour responds. International Journal of labour Research
Chatterjee, A. 2019. Measuring wealth inequality in South Africa: an agenda. Development Southern Africa, vol. 36(6) 839-859.
Sachs, M. 2019. Measuring wealth inequality in South Africa: an agenda. New Agenda Issue 75.
Webster, E. 2019. Confronting Inequality: The South African Crisis: A Review. New Agenda Issue 74