RETHINKING THE LABOUR MOVEMENT IN THE
NEW SOUTH AFRICA
The Making of Modern Africa
Series Editors: Abebe Zegeye and John Higginson
Growth or Stagnation? South Africa heading for the year 2000
Mats Lundahl
Sudans Predicament
Civil war, displacement and ecological degradation
Edited by Girma Kebbede
Doctors and the State
The struggle for professional control in Zimbabwe
Dorothy Mutizwa-Mangiza
Class Formation and Civil Society: The Politics of Education in Africa
Patrick M. Boyle
The Social Services Crisis of the 1990s
Edited by Anna Kajumulo Tibaijuka
Oil and Fiscal Federalism in Nigeria
Augustine A. Ikein and Comfort Briggs-Anigboh
Environment, Health and Population Displacement
Andrew E. Collins
International Banking and Rural Development
Pade Badru
Structural Adjustment and Mass Poverty in Ghana
Kwabena Donkor
Contemporary Issues in Socio-economic Reform in Zambia
Edited by Herrick C. Mpuku and Ivan Zyuulu
The State and Organised Labour in Botswana
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Franco Barchiesi is a researcher and lecturer in the Faculty of Political Sciences at the University of Bologna in Italy. At the time of editing the book, he was Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, where he taught between 1996 and 2002. His research is mainly about the relationships between labour, social citizenship and social security, and the impact of processes of social and economic restructuring. On these issues he has published widely, including in the journals Rethinking Marxism, Critical Sociology, Review of African Political Economy, Labour, Capital and Society, and Antipode. Franco is a candidate for a PhD at Wits University on Social citizenship and changes in the world of work in post-apartheid South Africa.
Tom Bramble is Senior Lecturer in Industrial Relations at the University of Queensland Business School in Australia. Toms main research interests include trade unionism, labour market restructuring, and labour movement politics, on which topics he has published widely in Australia, the UK, New Zealand and South Africa. He undertook six months field research in South Africa in 1997 and 2001, when he was based at the University of the Witwatersrand. Tom has been a union activist since the early 1980s, and holds a PhD on trade unionism in the Australian vehicle industry from La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia.
Lesley Catchpowle is Senior Lecturer in British and International Employee Relations at the Business School at the University of Greenwich in the UK. Lesley spent a year carrying out research in Cape Town in 19934 and 1997 on the topic Privatisation and the South African Municipal Workers Union. She has been an active socialist and trade unionist for over 20 years in the local government and higher education sectors in London. She has published two articles on South Africa, which appeared in the Industrial Relations Journal and Critical Perspectives on Accounting. Lesley holds an MSc (Econ.) in Industrial Relations from the London School of Economics.
Christine Cooper is Professor in Accounting at the University of Strathclyde in Scotland. She has published widely in the field of critical accounting and co-authored an article on South Africa with Lesley Catchpowle, which was published in Critical Perspectives on Accounting. In 2002 she wrote a report and presented evidence for the Scottish Executive/Parliament against proposals for prison privatisation. Christine holds a PhD from the University of Strathclyde.
Maria van Driel is Project Co-ordinator for Public Services International (PSI) (Southern Africa) in Johannesburg. Her work with the PSI includes research on gender, public sector reform and union development and solidarity. Between 1995 and 1999 Maria was employed by the SAMWU, initially as Gauteng regional organiser, later as co-ordinator of the unions anti-privatisation campaign. In 2000, she worked as a researcher for an ecumenical economic justice organisation. She is a regular contributor to the South African Labour Bulletin and is currently writing an account of the SAMWU campaign against privatisation.
Bridget Kenny is Lecturer in Industrial Sociology at the Sociology Department at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. Prior to taking this post she was a researcher at the Sociology of Work Unit at Wits University, where her work focused on the impact of casualisation and subcontracting on employment conditions and union organising. She has lived in South Africa since 1993 and, before working at Wits University, co-ordinated the gender education programme at the Industrial Aid Society, a worker advice centre in Johannesburg. She is currently completing her PhD in Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison on retail sector workers on the East Rand, South Africa.
Gilton Klerck is a Lecturer in the Department of Sociology and Industrial Sociology at Rhodes University in Grahamstown, South Africa. Gilton has conducted numerous research projects and facilitated several training workshops on industrial relations matters for COSATU. He has published journal articles and chapters in books on industrial restructuring, labour market flexibility, collective bargaining, worker participation, industrial relations in Namibia, and industrial development. Gilton holds an MA-LLB from the University of Natal, Durban.
