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May 23, '23
NALSU News: Understanding Eskom's crisis: The solution is not the state, but people's power: Lucien van der Walt, Neil Aggett Labour Studies Unit


May 18, '23
NALSU Labour Studies podcast/video: Professor Michael Rogan | “Social Security for Africa's Informal Sector? Evidence and Lessons from a High Tax / Low Protection System in Ghana."


May 4, '23
NALSU Labour Studies podcast/video: Dr Robert Ovetz | “Using a Workers’ Inquiry to Organise at Critical Choke Points"


May 4, '23
NALSU SEMINAR & WEBINAR: Wednesday 10 May 2023 4pm. Michael Rogan: “Social Security for Africa's Informal Sector? Evidence and Lessons from a High Tax / Low Protection System in Ghana"


Apr 20, '23
NALSU Webinar: Wednseday 26 April, 2023 @4pm, Robert Ovetz, University of California Berkeley and San José State University: “Using a Workers’ Inquiry to Organise at Critical Choke Points"


Apr 18, '23
NALSU Labour Studies podcast/video: Eddie Webster | Re-Casting the Power of Labour: Working in the Shadow of the Digital Age (Neil Aggett Labour Studies Lecture)


Oct 27, '22
NALSU Annual Neil Aggett Labour Studies Lecture/ Webinar: Wednesday 2 Nov. 2022, @ 4pm, Eddie Webster, SCIS, "Re-Casting the Power of Labour: Working in the Shadow of the Digital Age"


Oct 12, '22
NALSU Seminar/Webinar :Mattie Webb, University of California: "Beyond the Workplace: Black Workers' Internationalism and Union Struggles against Apartheid in American Multi-Nationals"


Oct 11, '22
Laura Alfers Seminar/Webinar YouTube Upload for launch, talk: “Social Contracts and Informal Workers in the Global South"


Oct 7, '22
The Neil Aggett Labour Studies Unit (NALSU) team congratulates David Fryer for major teaching award


Sep 16, '22
BOOK LAUNCH SEMINAR & WEBINAR SPEAKER AND TOPIC: Dr Laura Alfers, WIEGO & NALSU: “Social Contracts and Informal Workers in the Global South”


Sep 14, '22
Lucien van der Walt Seminar/Webinar YouTube Upload


Sep 6, '22
NALSU's Dr Lali Naidoo addresses Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on the living and working conditions of farm workers and -dwellers


Aug 30, '22
NALSU & Organising Women Workers in Women's Month


Aug 18, '22
Lucien van der Walt, NALSU, Rhodes: “Radical Encounters: Christianity, Garveyism and Revolutionary Syndicalism in the Industrial & Commercial Workers Union of Africa, 1919-1939”


Aug 17, '22
The Neil Aggett Labour Studies Unit (NALSU) team congratulates Siviwe Mhlana


Aug 10, '22
Prof Lucien van der Walt, NALSU, addresses Makukhanye Rural Movement: "The Current Conjuncture and the Broad Working-Class"


Aug 4, '22
NALSU's Prof Mike Rogan on "COVID-19 Crisis, the Informal Economy and Workers," WIEGO global survey


Jul 22, '22
NALSU Partners with UN Women and WIEGO to Support Informal Sector Workers’ Fight for Social Protection


Jul 14, '22
Neil Aggett Labour Studies Seminar/Webinar, Wed 20 July at 16:00pm. Reesha Kara, ISER Rhodes,"Non-Martial Fertility in South Africa: An Analysis of Trends & Socio-Economic Factors"


Jul 13, '22
Young Workers and Unions: Prof Lucien van der Walt, NALSU, and Dr Alex Mashilo, SACP, Address SAMWU Young Workers


Jul 8, '22
Working-class in Crisis: Siviwe Mhlana and David Francis in "Business Day"


Jun 17, '22
"A New Social Contract Inclusive of Informal Workers" by Laura Alfers, Martha Chen and Sophie Plagerson


Jun 15, '22
Are unions still relevant in 2022?


Jun 6, '22
ANNOUNCEMENT: NALSU YouTube Channel


May 20, '22
The official launch of the Oxford Handbook of the South African Economy was held online on the 6th of April 2022


May 15, '22
NALSU Labour Studies Seminar and Webinar: Siviwe Mhlana: Southern Centre for Inequality Studies (SCIS). Reimagining the Global Economy: Alternative Visions for an Equitable and Sustainable Post-Covid-19 Economic Recovery


Apr 14, '22
NALSU Labour Studies Seminar: Dr Mbuso Moyo, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES). Are Industrial Policies a Vehicle for Creating Sustainable Decent Jobs? Evidence from South Africa.


Mar 29, '22
Rhodes University’s Nine Tenths Programme: closing the gap between township and university?


Mar 5, '22
Domestic Workers UIF/COIDA Advocacy Workshop


Nov 17, '21
NALSU Webinar "One Year On: The Impact of the COVID-19 Crisis on Workers in Cultural and Creative Industries in South Africa" - Jen Snowball (& Andre Gouws), SACO


Nov 9, '21
Annual Neil Aggett Labour Studies Lecture, Rhodes University, South Africa


Oct 14, '21
NALSU Labour Studies Webinar: Thursday, 21 October 2021, Kanyiso Ntikinca Rhodes University, “Labour in Global Value Chains: Apples in South African agriculture"


Oct 8, '21
National strikes: eNCA interviews NALSU director Prof Lucien van der Walt


Sep 24, '21
NALSU Labour Studies webinar 6 October @ 4 pm: Michael Rogan, Rhodes University “Same Storm, Different Boat: COVID-19, Precarity and the South African Labour Market"


Sep 16, '21
NALSU Labour Studies webinar 22 Sept @ 4 pm: Janet Cherry (NMU), “Worker‐Controlled Cooperatives and Community‐Controlled Renewable Energy”


Sep 4, '21
Research on South Africa’s Obesity Epidemic


Aug 31, '21
NALSU Congratulates Dr Laura Alfers


Aug 23, '21
NALSU Podcast Announcement | David Fryer: Can We Ever Stop Talking Left and Walking Right? Diagnosing the economic debate in the age of Radical Economic Transformation


Jul 16, '21
NALSU Podcast Announcement: Luke Sinwell & Siphiwe Mbatha | The Spirit of Marikana: The rise of insurgent unionism in South Africa


May 12, '21
In this Labour Studies Podcast & YouTube Video, Pat Horn speaks on "Organised Workers in the Informal Economy"


Apr 29, '21
The Neil Aggett Labour Studies Unit (NALSU) team congratulates Ms. Siviwe Mhlana


Apr 29, '21
NALSU Podcast Announcement: Labour Studies Podcast, Leroy Maisiri: "After Zuma: A Workers' Party for South Africa?"


Apr 9, '21
Toward a Better Deal for Informal Workers: A Paradigm Shift Post-COVID


Apr 6, '21
NALSU Labour Studies Podcast and YouTube video: Mametlwe Sebei: "Losing or Using the Crisis? Critical Reflections on South African Labour in the Great Lockdown”


Mar 23, '21
Link workers and residents: Prof Lucien van der Walt, NALSU director, addresses SAMWU conference


Mar 12, '21
Informal Work in South Africa and COVID-19: Gendered Impacts and Priority Interventions


Mar 11, '21
NALSU Labour Studies Podcast Release: "Against Apartheid, For Civil Rights: Dockworkers and Social Justice Movements in Durban & San Francisco."


Feb 24, '21
NALSU Labour Studies Podcast, Andrew Lawrence discusses "Found in Translation: Understanding South Africa's Union Power."


Nov 10, '20
Webinar: “Public Childcare: Essential for Gender Equality” (Josie Mpama Gender Equality Series)


Nov 8, '20
NALSU Labour Studies Podcast: Mzwanele Mayekiso launches his journal "Ndivhuwo: Journal for Intellectual Engagement".


Oct 29, '20
Webinar: A Skills Partnership for Employment and Growth: From Current Engagement to Future Action


Oct 22, '20
NALSU Labour Studies Seminar Series: COVID-19 and the Working Class Movement in South Africa by Pat Horn


Oct 18, '20
Women, Informal Work & COVID-19


Oct 12, '20
Siviwe Mhlana: invited panelist at the annual Rethinking Economics for Africa (REFA) Festival


Oct 7, '20
NALSU Labour Studies Podcast, Sian Byrne discusses "Red, Black and Gold: FOSATU, South African 'Workerism,' 'Syndicalism' and the Nation."


Sep 29, '20
Prof Lucien van der Walt spoke on "Working Class Heritage: The Creation of the Working Class and its Struggles in South Africa"


Sep 17, '20
Losing or Using the Crisis? Critical Reflections on South African Labour in the Great Lockdown


Sep 9, '20
Labour Studies Podcast: Now Playing: Prof Allison Drew: "Looking Comparatively at Communism in Twentieth-century Algeria and South Africa."


Sep 7, '20
NALSU’s Lucien van der Walt on "Building the union for the future: linking bottom-up workers education to union revitalisation" in Amandla magazine


Aug 26, '20
NALSU's Mike Rogan gives ISER webinar on the "The COVID-19 Crisis and the South African Informal Economy"


Aug 15, '20
Support for women informal workers is urgent as pandemic unfolds in South Africa


Aug 14, '20
Labour Studies Podcast: Now Playing: Prof Peter Linebaugh: "Magna Carta Anniversary Lecture 'Liberties and Commons for All!' Reclaiming the Magna Carta from below 800 years later."


Aug 12, '20
NALSU Launches Labour Studies Podcasts Series


Jul 26, '20
The Informal Economy Revisited: Examining the Past, Envisioning the Future


Jul 21, '20
Evidence to mitigate the socio-economic impacts and promote recovery from COVID-19


Jul 18, '20
NALSU’s Mandela Day news


Jul 13, '20
Prof Rogan invited to panel to review the higher education, science, technology and innovation institutional landscape (HESTIIL)


Jul 6, '20
ODI at 60 Global Reset Dialogue Series


Jul 6, '20
Well done! NALSU Funded Students


Jun 22, '20
The ILO World Social Protection Report 2017–19: An Assessment: Laura Alfers & Rachel Moussié


Jun 10, '20
Transformation, stratification and higher education: exploring the absorption into employment of public financial aid beneficiaries across the South African higher education system’


Jun 3, '20
WATCH VIDEO: Lucien van der Walt, 2020, "Critically Assessing Social Programmes to Mitigate COVID-19: Long march to rebuilding bottom-up, working class-led change in South Africa"


May 22, '20
WORKERS' CONVERSATIONS Livestream!


Apr 4, '20
NALSU involved in national-level measures to protect informal workers in South Africa's COVID-19 crisis (statement 4 April 2020)


Apr 1, '20
Economists say more can be done to cushion blow of COVID-19


Mar 26, '20
COVID-19 & Neil Aggett Labour Studies Unit (NALSU), South Africa: Social Justice Call, & Arrangements for our Work, Worker Education and Seminars


Mar 16, '20
2020 Labour Studies Seminar Series Programme is here!


Mar 3, '20
One-day workshop, all welcome: Rojava Speaking Tour: An Alternative for a World in Crisis: The Rojava Revolution, Kurdish Freedom Movement and Prospects for South Africa’s Incomplete Liberation


Feb 13, '20
New publication: Labour Studies: Working Class Education Series: “Strategy: Debating Politics Within and At a Distance from the State


Feb 5, '20
The life and legacy of Dr Neil Aggett


Feb 4, '20
Beyond Decent Work: Fighting for Unions and Equality in Africa


Jan 21, '20
Neil Aggett Labour Studies Unit, Rhodes University, welcomes new inquest into the apartheid death of union leader Neil Aggett.


Oct 2, '19
Social Capital Unionism and Empowerment: A Case Study of the ‘Solidarity’ Union at ArcelorMittal South Africa, Vanderbijlpark


Sep 18, '19
'To Conquer or be Slaves': The 1819 Battle of Egazini, Grahamstown/ Makhanda, and the Making of the Cape's Black Working Class


Aug 21, '19
Launch: Ndivhuwo: Journal for Intellectual Engagement


Aug 12, '19
Book Review: Post-School Education and the Labour Market in South Africa


Jul 31, '19
State resources, Eskom and the PIC: Alternatives in the Debt Crisis


Jul 10, '19
A learning convention in honour of comrade Vuyisile Mini


May 22, '19
The Councillor and the Commissioner: Job creation policy and citizenship rights in urban South Africa


May 9, '19
T-SHIRT DESIGN COMPETITION !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


May 15, '19
Book Launch | Markets on the Margins: Mineworkers, job creation & enterprise development by Kate Philip |


Apr 24, '19
Revisiting Harold Wolpe in Post-Apartheid South Africa


Apr 17, '19
Book Release: Handbook of Social Policy and Development


Apr 10, '19
Book Release: Race, Class and the Post-Apartheid Democratic State


Apr 17, '19
Book Launch: The Political Economy of Livelihoods in Contemporary Zimbabwe


Apr 4, '19
The right to vote: a South African discussion


Mar 27, '19
What Are We Fighting For? Possibilities for Decent Work, Unions and Rights in Africa


Mar 20, '19
Book Launch: Post-School Education and the Labour Market in South Africa


Mar 6, '19
Book Launch: Twentieth-Century South Africa: A Developmental History


Oct 17, '18
Informal workers growing older in the changing world of work: Implications for economic and social policies


Nov 22, '18
Launch of the Keiskammahoek Rural Survey & Surplus People Project Survey Datasets


Nov 27, '18
Data rescue for future researchers


Oct 3, '18
Politics at a Distance from the State: Radical and African Perspectives


Oct 9, '18
Freedom Isn't Free: The Freedom Charter Today


Sep 19, '18
From micro- to macroeconomics for sustainability: the delusion of micro-foundations


Sep 5, '18
The South African Informal Sector: Creating Jobs, Reducing Poverty


Aug 20, '18
Book Launch: Writing the Ancestral River: A biography of the Kowie


Aug 21, '18
SA feminism has long been intersectional, says Prof Shireen Hassim


Aug 16, '18
Film Screening: Out of Dust and Iron, The Women of Marikana Rise: Strike a Rock


Jul 31, '18
The inequality of Apartheid still felt in Eastern Cape, says Dr Reynolds in new book


Jul 25, '18
Book Launch: Development planning in South Africa: Provincial policy and state power in the Eastern Cape


May 23, '18
Book Launch: Urban Revolt: State Power and the Rise of People's Movements in the Global South


May 16, '18
Book Launch: Crossing the Divide: Precarious Work and the Future of Labour


May 9, '18
Commemorating Marx Bicentenary with discussion on Marx's Legacy


Apr 25, '18
Book Launch: Labour Beyond COSATU


Apr 17, '18
Can we ever stop talking Left and walking Right? Diagnosing the economic debate in the age of Radical Economic Transformation


Mar 14, '18
Who Owns the Land, Who Owns the Platinum? Conflict and Contested Meanings of Land and Mineral Wealth in Rural South Africa


Mar 7, '18
The unfolding of African feminism in CODESRIA: rethinking the dynamics of knowledge commons


Mar 9, '18
Proper child care helps poor working women – and it can boost economies


Jan 30, '18
Coming Soon: Head of NALSU, Dr John Reynolds Publishes Book on Development Policy in the Eastern Cape


Jan 12, '18
Rhodes affiliated scholars pen pertinent body of work to acclaim


Oct 17, '17
1917-2017: The Russian Revolution and its Relevance Today


Sep 27, '17
Baphi oMzala? — An African Marxist Perspective on the 'National Question' in South Africa


Oct 9, '17
Women Workers' Politics, Race and Consumption in South Africa: Shelved in the Service Economy


Sep 13, '17
Starving amidst Plenty: Survey Evidence on Child Stunting in South Africa


Aug 23, '17
The Spirit of Marikana: The Rise of Insurgent Unionism in South Africa


May 3, '17
The Unresolved National Question in South Africa: Left Thought under Apartheid


May 17, '17
The Crisis in the ANC and the Struggle against Corruption


Mar 29, '17
Is South Africa at a Turning Point?


Mar 1, '17
Contesting the Racist Public Sphere: “New Africa” and the Industrial and Commercial Workers’ Union versus the State in South Africa, 1918-1938


Mar 8, '17
Book Launch: Solidarity Road: The story of a trade union in the ending of apartheid by Jan Theron


Feb 22, '17
Findings from the National Minimum Wage Research Initiative


Feb 17, '16
Launch of Ndivhuwo: Journal for Intellectual Engagement


Feb 24, '16
Against Apartheid, For Civil Rights: Dockworkers and Social Justice Movements in Durban & San Francisco


May 25, '16
How Useful is “Settler-Colonialism” as Concept and Guide to Liberation Struggles?


Aug 24, '16
Caught in the grip of the market: past and present of rural wage workers in South Africa


Mar 2, '16
Found in Translation: Understanding South Africa's Union Power


Mar 16, '16
Launch: "The New Black Middle Class In South Africa"


Apr 6, '16
What would you do with 1.8 trillion? The Private Affairs of the Public Investment Corporation


May 18, '16
Double book launch: Capitalism’s Crises: Class Struggles in South Africa and the World and COSATU in Crisis: The Fragmentation of an African Trade Union Federation


Sep 7, '16
Graduates and the Labour Market: the cases of two Eastern Cape universities


Sep 20, '16
Wage determination and employment in South Africa: the case of the clothing industry


Nov 11, '15
Harold Wolpe Colloquium


Sep 29, '15
The working poor in South Africa


Sep 21, '15
Second Neil Aggett Labour Studies Lecture


Jul 28, '15
NALSU brings Prof Eddie Webster to the Eastern Cape


Jul 28, '15
Launch of labour studies seminar series


Jul 28, '15
Vuyisile Mini Winter School 2015


Jul 28, '15
LMIP briefing of Minister of Higher Education and Training


Jan 21, '20
Neil Aggett Labour Studies Unit welcomes inquest into death of Aggett


Nov 3, '22
How the special Covid grant helped informal traders to stay afloat




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