NALSU NEWS: Labour Studies podcast/video - Lincoln Addison, Memorial University in Canada | Chiefs of the Plantation: Authority and Contestation on the South Africa-Zimbabwe Border
Commercial farming has undergone enormous changes in South Africa since the 1990s, including the growing use of contract, immigrant, and off-site labour. In this talk, Lincoln Addisson discusses how labour relations have changed in South African agriculture since the end of apartheid. Drawing on ethnographic research on a plantation located along the South Africa-Zimbabwe border, he argues that labour control hinges upon a delegation of authority from white landowners to black Zimbabwean managers. These labour relations facilitate intensive fruit production, but also enable lower-ranking migrant workers to access natural resources, steal plantation property, and contest piece rates.
YOUTUBE: https://shorturl.at/sKoA5
PODCAST: https://shorturl.at/bHyut
SPEAKER: Lincoln Addison is an Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Memorial University, in Canada. He is an economic and environmental anthropologist whose research focuses on labour, gender and agrarian change in South Africa and Zimbabwe. Widely published, his recent papers have appeared in the African Studies Review , the Journal of Agrarian Change , and the Journal of Peasant Studies.
DETAILS: Recording of a blended event in the Neil Aggett Labour Studies Unit (NALSU) Labour Studies Seminar Series, held on Monday 22 May 2023, at 4 pm, in Sociology A, Rhodes University.
HOSTS: The Labour Studies Seminar Series is run by the Neil Aggett Labour Studies Unit (NALSU) in partnership with the Departments of Sociology & Industrial Sociology, and Economics & Economic History, Rhodes University.
ABOUT NALSU: Based in the Eastern Cape, South Africa, NALSU is engaged in policy, research, and workers' education, has a democratic, non-sectarian, non-aligned, and pluralist practice, and active relations with other advocacy, labour, and research organisations. We are named in honour of Neil Aggett, union organiser and medical doctor who died in 1982 in an apartheid jail.
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