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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 4, '16

After Zuma: A Workers' Party for South Africa

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