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...

In South Africa a growing crisis of political legitimacy - given widening social inequality, high unemployment, persistent poverty, ecological devastation and increased corruption - has had a direct impact on the union movement. The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa's (NUMSA's) 2013...

Introduction: Political reconfigurations in the wake of Marikana / Prishani Naidoo. - PART 1: NEW POLITICAL DIRECTIONS?. - CHAPTER 1: Reconstituting and re-imagining the left after Marikana / Noor Nieftagodien. - CHAPTER 2: Labour and community struggles 1994-2014 / Marcel Paret. - CHAPTER 3:...

Front Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: South Africa's fragile democracy: Twenty years on -- Part One: Ecology, Economy and Labour -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: The South African labour market after eighteen years: It's class struggle, stupid! -- Chapter 2:...