Recasting Workers' Power

Edward Webster (1942-2024) was Distinguished Research Professor at the Southern Centre of Inequality Studies and the founder and past director of the Society, Work and Development Institute (SWOP) at the University of the Witwatersrand. Professor Webster was the recipient of the first South African Sociological Association (SASA) lifetime award for his contribution to the academic study of the sociology of work and labour in South Africa.Lynford Dor is a Doctoral Researcher at KU Leuven's Centre for Sociological Research (CESO) and a Research Associate at the University of Johannesburg's SARCHI Chair in Social Change (CSC).

• 1. The End of Labour? Rethinking the Labour Question in the Digital Age2. Precarious Work after Apartheid: Experimenting with Alternative Forms of Representation in the Informal Sector - with Kally Forrest3. Neo-liberalism comes to Johannesburg: Changing the Rules of the Game4. Divided Workers, Divided Struggles: Entrenching Dualisation and the Struggle for Equalisation in South Africa’s Manufacturing Sector - Lynford Dor5. Authoritarian Algorithmic Management: The Double-edged Sword of the Gig Economies - with Fikile Masikane6. Crossing the Divide: Informal Workers and Trade Unions - with Carmen Ludwig7. Global Capital, Global Labour: The Possibilities of Transnational Activism - with Carmen Ludwig8. Changing Sources of Power and the Future of Southern Labour