In a study ‘You entered through that gate and you will leave through that gate’: The decent work deficit for Gauteng’s farmworkers’, by Edward Webster, Mbuso Nkosi, Debbie Budlender, Lelanie Williams and Mark Orkin, which we published in the October/ November 2013 issue, some of the highlights of the study were decent work themes. In this issue the writers explore the themes of employment opportunity, stability and security at work.