Social citizenship, income redistribution, and the changing world of work

This research stream is interested in examining how social welfare, citizenship, and labour legislation intersect to reproduce the capitalist state and what this means for the lived experiences of working-age adults in a changing world of work. The project is particularly interested in exploring how digitalisation and the rise of platform work undermine historical gains won by labour. Furthermore, it seeks to understand how these processes affect the stratification of citizens along the lines of race, gender, and class. This project is situated in contemporary debates about basic income and more radical forms of redistribution. It seeks to make critical theoretical and empirical contributions to global political economy debates through a focus on the changing world of work in Africa and the global South more broadly.