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Prof Gilton Klerck

  

 

(ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR)

BA (Hons) LLB MA (University of Natal) PhD (Rhodes University)

E-mail:  g.klerck@ru.ac.za

Tel:  +27 (0)46 603 8831

GENERAL PROFILE:

Gilton Klerck is the labour relations specialist in the Department of Sociology & Industrial Sociology. His legal background and sociological training mean that Gilton is uniquely qualified to offer comprehensive courses in labour relations. He is one of the pioneers of socio-legal analysis of subcontracting and outsourcing in South Africa.

Gilton is currently Head of Department. He has acted as an external examiner for several South African universities, serves on the editorial board and review panel of local and international journals, and has acted as a referee for the National Research Foundation. Professionally, he is a member of the South African Sociological Association and an advocate of the High Court of South Africa. 

Gilton is also actively involved in the labour movement and civil-society organisations. He has (among others) conducted research, with direct policy relevance, for the Eastern Cape Socio-Economic Consultative Council in Bhisho and the Labour Resource and Research Institute in Windhoek, Namibia. He presented seminars to community and trade union leaders at the Institute for Social and Economic Research’s annual Summer School, the Neil Aggett Labour Studies Unit’s annual Winter School, and Nelson Mandela University’s Labour and Development Programme.

TEACHING (UNDER- AND POST-GRADUATE):

  • Labour relations
  • Sociology of the labour market
  • Trade unionism and comparative labour history
  • Sociology of work
  • Labour law
  • Economic sociology
  • Research methodology

POST-GRADUATE SUPERVISION:

  • Collective bargaining
  • Skills development
  • Industrial action and dispute resolution
  • Labour and trade unions
  • Critical management studies
  • Employment standards
  • Occupational health and safety
  • Workplace restructuring
  • Casualisation and externalisation
  • Minimum wages
  • Labour law and labour market policy
  • Global value chains
  • Innovation and industrial networks
  • Neoliberalism and governance

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS: 

  • Klerck, G. (2007). Labour regulation in Namibia: From ‘colonial despotism’ to ‘flexible Taylorism’. In: C. Brewster & G. Wood (eds.) Industrial relations in Africa. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Klerck, G. & Naidoo, L. (2007). The ‘bite’ of a minimum wage: Enforcement of and compliance with the sectoral determination for farm workers.South African Journal of Labour Relations, Vol. 31 (1).
  • Klerck, G. (2008). Industrial relations in Namibia since independence: Between neo-liberalism and neo-corporatism? Employee Relations, Vol. 30 (4). 
  • Klerck, G. (2009). Regulation and flexibility: Industrial restructuring and labour market segmentation in Namibia, 1990–2000. Berlin: VDM-Publishing. 
  • Klerck, G. (2009). Rise of the temporary employment industry in Namibia: A regulatory ‘fix’, Journal of Contemporary African Studies, Vol. 27 (1).
  • Klerck, G. (2009). Theory in industrial relations: A regulationist approach, South African Journal of Labour Relations, Vol. 33 (2).
  • Klerck, G. & Sycholt, M. (2010). The state and labour relations: Walking the tightrope between corporatism and neo-liberalism. In: C. Keulder (ed.) State, society and democracy: A reader in Namibian politics(second edition). Windhoek: Macmillan. 
  • Klerck, G. & Naidoo, L. (2010). Minimum wages in the agricultural sector: Division and change. In: L. Heinecken & H. Prozesky (eds.) Change, challenge and resistance: Reflections from South Africa and beyond. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
  • Dibben, P., Klerck, G. & Wood, G. (2011). Employment relations: A critical and international perspective. London: Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development.
  • Klerck, G. & Naidoo, L. (2011). Minimum wages in the agricultural sector: A regulatory ‘shock’? In: G. Ruiters (ed.) The fate of the Eastern Cape: History, politics and social policy. Durban: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press. 
  • Klerck, G. (2012). Firms, markets and the social regulation of capitalism in Sub-Saharan Africa. In: G. Wood & M. Demirbag (eds.) Handbook of institutional approaches to international business. Oxford: Edward Elgar.
  • Wood, G., Dibben, P. & Klerck, G. (2013). The limits of transnational solidarity: The Congress of South African Trade Unions and the Swaziland and Zimbabwean crises, Labor History, Vol. 54 (5).
  • Klerck, G. (2014). Institutions, management strategies and HRM. In: Wilkinson, G. Wood & R. Deeg (eds.) The Oxford handbook of employment relations: Comparative employment systems. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Klerck, G. (2014). Sociology and international human resource management. In: Collings, G. Wood & P. Caligiuri (eds.) The Routledge companion to international human resource management. London: Routledge.
  • Dibben, P., Klerck, G. & Wood, G. (2015). The ending of southern Africa's tripartite dream: The cases of South Africa, Namibia and Mozambique, Business History, Vol. 57 (3).
  • Klerck, G. (2017). ’Breaking the chain’: The evolution of employee voice in Namibia, Advances in Industrial and Labor Relations, 23.
  • Naidoo, L., Klerck, G. & Helliker, K. (2018). Resisting accumulation by dispossession: Organisation and mobilisation by the rural poor in contemporary South Africa. In: D. Kapoor (ed.), Social movements and accumulation by dispossession. London: Zed Books.
  • Klerck, G. (2019). Industrial relations and human resources management. In: D. Collings, G. Wood & L. Szamosi (eds.) Human resource management: A critical approach (second edition). London: Routledge.
  • Klerck, G. (2019), The state and the law. In: J. Reynolds & L. van der Walt (eds.) Strategy: Debating politics within and at a distance from the state. Makhanda: Friedrich Ebert Stiftung & Neil Aggett Labour Studies Unit.
  • Maree, J., Klerck, G. & Benya, A. (2021). Employment relations in South Africa. In: G.J. Bamber, F.L. Cooke, V. Doellgast & C.F. Wright (eds.) International and comparative employment relations: Global crises and institutional responses. London: SAGE Publications.
  • Van der Walt, L., Klerck, G. & Helliker, K. (2022). State capitalism in sub-Saharan Africa: Colonial rule, capitalist development and class formation. In: M. Wright, G.T. Wood, A. Cuervo-Cazurra, P. Sun, I. Okhmatovskiy & A. Grosman (eds.) The Oxford handbook of state capitalism and the firm. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Klerck, G. (2022). Neoliberalisation and regulatory restructuring in South Africa’s commercial agriculture. In: K. Helliker & F. Mazwai (eds.) Capital penetration and the peasantry in Southern and Eastern Africa. London: Springer.

 

 

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