Labour Disrupted: Reflections on the Future of Work in South Africa

Analyses the fragmentation and future of labour movements in South Africa and globally in the context of globalisation, the fourth industrial revolution and the Covid-19 pandemic.

Table of Contents:
Figures and Tables Acknowledgements Introduction: Disruptions and New Directions in South African Labour Studies – Andries Bezuidenhout, Malehoko Tshoaedi and Christine Bischoff Chapter 1 Fragmented Labour Movement, Fragmented Labour Studies: New Directions for Research and Theory – Lucien van der Walt PART I CHANGING SOLIDARITIES Chapter 2 Patriarchal Collusions and Women’s Marginalisation in Mining Unions – Asanda-Jonas Benya Chapter 3 Youth, Trade Unions and the Challenges of Employment Christine Bischoff Chapter 4 Community Health Care Workers in Gauteng: Volunteerism as a Band-Aid for Unemployment – Nomkhosi Xulu-Gama and Aisha Lorgat PART II TECHNOLOGY AND WORK Chapter 5 Trade Unions, Technology and Skills – Siphelo Ngcwangu Chapter 6 Labour Process, Hegemony and Technology: ‘Sanitised Workplace Orders’ at Two South African Mines – John Mashayamombe Chapter 7 Trade Union Responses to Production Technologies in the Fourth Industrial Revolution – Mondli Hlatshwayo Chapter 8 Emotional Labour in Government Frontline Work: The Burden of Public Call Centre Workers – Babalwa Magoqwana PART III NEW FORMS OF ORGANISING Chapter 9 Why Other Spaces Matter: The Case of Mamelodi Train Sector – Mpho Mmadi Chapter 10 Social Capital Unionism and Empowerment: A Case of Solidarity Union at ArcelorMittal Vanderbijlpark – Jantjie Xaba Chapter 11 Hegemony, Counter-Hegemony and the Role of Social Movements – Janet Cherry Chapter 12 Competing Interests: Investment Companies and the Future of Labour – Sandla Nomvete Chapter 13 Going Global, Building Local: A Southern Perspective on the Future of Labour Internationalism – Edward Webster PART IV LABOUR AND LOCKDOWN Chapter 14 The Labour Movement’s Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic – Christine Bischoff Conclusion Questions, Answers and New Directions – Andries Bezuidenhout, Christine Bischoff and Malehoko Tshoaedi Contributors Index

About the Author :
Malehoko Tshoaedi is an associate professor in the department of Sociology at the University of Johannesburg. She is co-editor of a number of books of which most recently The Fourth Industrial Revolution: A Sociological Critique (2021) and Labour Beyond Cosatu: Mapping the Rupture in South Africa's Labour Landscape (2017). Christine Bischoff works as a researcher at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. Andries Bezuidenhout is Professor of Development Studies at the University of Fort Hare. He is a research associate at the Society, Work and Development Institute (SWOP) at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. He has co-edited a number of books of which most recently, Critical Engagement with Public Sociology (2021) and Labour Beyond Cosatu: Mapping the Rupture in South Africa's Labour Landscape (2017). Malehoko Tshoaedi is an associate professor in the department of Sociology at the University of Johannesburg. She is co-editor of a number of books of which most recently The Fourth Industrial Revolution: A Sociological Critique (2021) and Labour Beyond Cosatu: Mapping the Rupture in South Africa's Labour Landscape (2017). Christine Bischoff works as a researcher at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. Andries Bezuidenhout is Professor of Development Studies at the University of Fort Hare. He is a research associate at the Society, Work and Development Institute (SWOP) at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. He has co-edited a number of books of which most recently, Critical Engagement with Public Sociology (2021) and Labour Beyond Cosatu: Mapping the Rupture in South Africa's Labour Landscape (2017). Janet Cherry is Professor of Development Studies at the Nelson Mandela University in Port Elizabeth. Nomkhosi Xulu-Gama is a senior lecturer at the University of Cape Town and Research Associate at the Durban University of Technology. Mondli Hlatshwayo is a senior researcher in the Centre for Education Rights and Transformation at the University of Johannesburg. Aisha Lorgat is a researcher at the Chris Hani Institute. Babalwa Magoqwana is the interim Director for the Centre for Women and Gender Studies at Nelson Mandela University in Gqeberha. John Mashayamombe is Life in the City Postdoctoral fellow at Wits City Institute, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. Mpho Mmadi is a senior student adviser in the faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, University of Pretoria. Siphelo Ngcwangu is a senior lecturer at the Sociology Department at the University of Johannesburg. Sandla Nomvete is an institutional researcher in the Office for Institutional Strategy at Nelson Mandela University. Jantjie Xaba is a lecturer in the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology at Stellenbosch University. Lucien van der Walt is Professor of Economic and Industrial Sociology, and Director of the Neil Aggett Labour Studies Unit at Rhodes University. Edward Webster is Distinguished Research Professor in the Southern Centre for Inequality and founder of the Society, Work and Development Institute Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg