Uber Eats gets indigestion
In December 2020 during the COVID pandemic Uber Eats’ couriers downed tools in the first ever national ‘platform’ strike in …
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“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 …
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 …
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 …
‘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 …
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 …
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 …