A delegation of labour scholars and practitioners first came to our university, the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa, in 2006, to engage with colleagues about establishing the Global Labour University on our campus. It was to be the second site after Germany, and we were all...

The German philosopher, Karl Marx is seen to have expressed poetic creativity in his humanitarian brand of philosophy wherein he combined politics, philosophy and economics in scrutinizing man's historical plight through the eyes of an empath, with the aim of theorizing improvement in mankind's...