Uber Eats gets indigestion
In December 2020 during the COVID pandemic Uber Eats’ couriers downed tools in the first ever national ‘platform’ strike in …
Vol 44, No. 1
‘It is just a hustle’: A migrant vendor speaks
For an immigrant street trader in Durban, life was hard before the lockdown in 2020. But the COVID-19 crisis lowered …
She even considered living in a tree: A Domestic Worker Speaks
Women in Informal Employment Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO) conducted a number of interviews with workers in vulnerable and informal employment …
Women carry the heavy load of COVID-19
COVID-19 has increased pressures on women. Liesl Orr argues that it is mainly women who work in low paid service …
A Just and Equitable South Africa :Universal Basic Income Grant
The model of wage labour is coming to an end as unemployment rises and wages fall to unacceptable levels. Awande …
Fear and Frustration: Voices of Taxi Drivers and Passengers
Taxi drivers and passengers feel that they have little protection from contracting Covid 19. Rob Rees interviewed a number of …
Migrant Wellbeing : Social Security Responses in a Time of Deadly Disease
Migrants in South Africa under the Covid 19 lockdown suffered acutely. Janet Munakamwe explains why this was the case and …
Same storm, different boat : Covid-19 and South African informal workers
Many people have suffered during the Covid-19 pandemic but some groups of South Africans have more than others. Michael Rogan …
Digitalisation and post-work utopias: A view from the global South
Many people in the global North are putting forward the idea of a future without wage-labour, including exploitative digitalised work. …
Worker stress and some interventions
All workers in South Africa, but particularly workers in the informal economy, lost incomes and livelihoods during the COVID 19 …