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Why did the worker not remain an artisan and an artist? The unattended question of the worker’s ontological identity

by Isaac Dumi

Since Covid-19 is something of a question about the future, in relation to labour, can the question be broadened, and …

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Categories On politics and economics, Vol. 43, No.4

Incorporating bomahlalela; reconceptualising unemployment and labour in the age of uncertainty and fear

by Thabang Masilo Sefalafala

Dr. Thabang Sefalafala argues that COVID-19 has brought to many the tacit realisation that jobs alone cannot give security and …

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Categories Featured, Vol. 43, No.4

The Deadly Surplus

by Isaac Dumi

The story is a parody of the authority in the capitalist society. The idea is that the authority of this …

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Categories On politics and economics, Vol. 43, No.4

We Need a New Conception of Labour

by Khwezi Mabasa

Khwezi Mabasa argues that the Covid-19 pandemic has amplified the economic policy debates on the need to rethinking the importance …

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Categories On politics and economics, Vol. 43, No.4

In, out and round-about: the variegated terrain of labour responses to the C-19 pandemic in South Africa

by Dale T. McKinley

In the overall context of this historic crisis, will survivalism and the more immediate meeting of basic material needs ensure …

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Categories On politics and economics, Vol. 43, No.4

‘It is just a hustle’: A migrant vendor speaks

by Sarah Heneck

For an immigrant street trader in Durban, life was hard before the lockdown in 2020. But the COVID-19 crisis lowered …

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Categories In the unions, Vol 44, No. 1

She even considered living in a tree: A Domestic Worker Speaks

by Bronwen Dachs Muller

Women in Informal Employment Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO) conducted a number of interviews with workers in vulnerable and informal employment …

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Categories Vol 44, No. 1

Women carry the heavy load of COVID-19

by Liesl Orr

COVID-19 has increased pressures on women. Liesl Orr argues that it is mainly women who work in low paid service …

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Categories In the Workplace, Vol 44, No. 1

A Just and Equitable South Africa :Universal Basic Income Grant

by Awande Buthelezi

The model of wage labour is coming to an end as unemployment rises and wages fall to unacceptable levels.  Awande …

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Categories Vol 44, No. 1

Fear and Frustration: Voices of Taxi Drivers and Passengers

by Rob Rees

Taxi drivers and passengers feel that they have little protection from contracting Covid 19. Rob Rees interviewed a number of …

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Categories In the Workplace, Vol 44, No. 1
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