Giving to RU
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