“How do you smile at patient number 200?” The #Care4carers campaign in South Africa
This conversation was first published in the Global Labour Column where Fikile Dikolomela-Lengene (who is in quarantine) spoke about the …
Vol. 43, No.4
Why did the worker not remain an artisan and an artist? The unattended question of the worker’s ontological identity
Since Covid-19 is something of a question about the future, in relation to labour, can the question be broadened, and …
Incorporating bomahlalela; reconceptualising unemployment and labour in the age of uncertainty and fear
Dr. Thabang Sefalafala argues that COVID-19 has brought to many the tacit realisation that jobs alone cannot give security and …
The Deadly Surplus
The story is a parody of the authority in the capitalist society. The idea is that the authority of this …
We Need a New Conception of Labour
Khwezi Mabasa argues that the Covid-19 pandemic has amplified the economic policy debates on the need to rethinking the importance …
In, out and round-about: the variegated terrain of labour responses to the C-19 pandemic in South Africa
In the overall context of this historic crisis, will survivalism and the more immediate meeting of basic material needs ensure …