Email address: Warren.mcgregor@wits.ac.za

Office number: +27(0)117174479

BA (UWC), BA Honours (Wits), MA (Wits)

Warren McGregor is the Programme Coordinator of the Global Labour University (GLU) at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits). This offers Honours and Masters courses to trade unionists from South Africa and beyond, as well as the ENGAGE course, an eight-week certificate programme. He runs the GLU Transfer Project, which involves workshops and research with GLU alumni across Africa, and an annual event in Johannesburg with participants from multiple countries. You can read more about the GLU here 

Warren's work with GLU, since joining in 2013, includes focusing on building trade union and working-class power through critical education, research, strategy development and organisational renewal. This is part of his longer history of engagement with unions and other working-class movements, including in communities.

Warren also works as a sessional and guest lecturer for Wits' Department of Sociology, presenting on topics like African political sociology, anarchist / syndicalist economics, and trade union history and ideologies. An affiliate of the Neil Aggett Labour Studies Unit (NALSU) at Rhodes University, he has contributed to its annual Vuyisile Mini Workers School and Policy, Theory and Research for Labour Movements short course programme.

His research interests include labour history, trade union ideology and strategy, anarchism/syndicalism and building the organisational power of labour and the working class. 

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS:

McGregor, W. (2024). "Workers’ Movements and Political Parties: Mapping African Experiences." Vuyisile Mini Workers School, Neil Aggett Labour Studies Unit (NALSU), Makhanda, 28 October-1 November.

McGregor, W. (2023). "State-Owned Enterprises: Three Routes to Restructuring Spoornet." Vuyisile Mini Workers School, Neil Aggett Labour Studies Unit (NALSU), Makhanda, 13 November-17 November.

McGregor, W. (2022). "Creative Thinking and Building Working-Class (Counter) Power." Vuyisile Mini Workers School, Neil Aggett Labour Studies Unit (NALSU), Makhanda, 31 October-4 November.

McGregor, W. & Webster, E. (2021). "Building a Regional solidarity network of transnational activists: An African case study", Tempo Social. 33(2): 15-36.

McGregor, W ., Byrne, S. & van der Walt, L. (2015). "Troubled SA Must Take May Day Seriously", in Mail and Guardian 

McGregor, W ., Byrne, S. & van der Walt, L. (2011). “Why May Day Matters: History with Anarchist Roots”, South African Labour Bulletin . 35 (1): 51-53.

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