Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to consider women in rural villages of Keiskammahoek in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. What the author discovered is that some women are carving out a space through a complex, triple relation to the state. The state is distributor of social...

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...

We discuss the failure of social movement theories to adequately understand and theorize locally-based, grassroots social movements like the landless workers movement in Brazil, “livability movements†in third world cities, and living wage movements in the US. Movements like these come...

1. Rethinking the developmental state in the twenty-first century / Michelle Williams -- 2. The developmental state in retrospect and prospect : lessons from India and South Korea / Vivek Chibber -- 3. Liberal globalization, capabilities and the developmental network state in Ireland / Sean O...

Democratising and globalising Marxism. Marxism and democracy : liberal, vanguard or direct? -- Marxism after Polanyi -- Transnationalising Gramscian Marxism -- Marxism and left politics. Notes on critique -- Marxism and feminism : 'unhappy marriage' or creative partnership? -- Marx and the...