Editor(s): Malehoko Tshoaedi, Christine Bischoff, Andries Bezuidenhout
Author(s): Malehoko Tshoaedi, Christine Bischoff, Andries Bezuidenhout, Janet Cherry, Nomkhosi Xulu-Gama, Mondli Hlatshwayo, Aisha Lorgat, Babalwa Magoqwana, John Mashayamombe, Mpho Mmadi, Siphelo Ngcwangu, Sandla Nomvete, Jantjie Xaba, Lucien van der Walt, Edward Webster
Product Details
Format:
Paperback / softback
ISBN:
9781776148226
DOI:
10.18772/22023108226
Publication Date:
1st Oct 2023
Publisher:
Wits University Press
Dimensions:
358 pages – 234mm x 156mm
Description
Labour Disrupted exposes the precariousness of union organisation and how labour movements have had to respond to the challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic. It addresses issues related to the fourth industrial revolution on the working class, and the challenges of skills development and inclusiveness.
Labour Disrupted reflects on the past and the future of labour, primarily in South Africa but also globally. It focuses on how South Africa’s lockdown during the Covid-19 pandemic further exposed key contradictions and challenges that labour movements face.
The contributions include a diverse range of topics currently engaged with by those actively engaged in the field of labour movement. Essays by academics and activists tackle thorny issues: from redefining democracy in South Africa, to experiences of inclusiveness (or lack thereof) in workplace environments by women, young people, migrant workers, LGBTI people and people living with disabilities. The volume addresses contemporary issues related to the use of technology and the impact of the fourth industrial revolution on the youth and the working class, and the challenges of skills development and restructuring in the workplace.
Labour Disrupted shows new forms of organising and alliances that labour movements are involved in to address issues of social justice in education, health and community solidarity.
Andries Bezuidenhout is ’n digter, sanger, beeldende kunstenaar en akademikus. Hy het twee digbundels gepubliseer, naamlik Retoer (2007, Protea Boekhuis) en Veelvuldige gebruike vir huishoudelike toestelle (2014, Protea Boekhuis). Sy mees onlangse musiekopname is Onplaats wat in 2020 deur Die Wasgoedlyn vrygestel is. Hy het twee verdere albums as solo-musikant opgeneem en nog drie saam met sy eertydse groep, die Brixton Moord en Roof Orkes. Hy skilder meestal landskappe en interieurs en het aan ʼn paar kunsuitstallings – onder andere een met Olive Schreiner as historiese figuur as fokus – deelgeneem. Hy het grade van die Universiteite van die Witwatersrand (doktorsgraad in sosiologie), Pretoria (politieke wetenskap en bedryfsosiologie) en Stellenbosch (kreatiewe skryfkuns). Tans is hy ’n professor in ontwikkelingstudies aan die Universiteit van Fort Hare en woon in Alice.
