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Researchers at the SCIS publish widely in a range of accredited journals. Here is a selection of the work by our research team.

2025

Dawson, H. J., Mhlana, S., & Lynch, I. (2026). , 47(1), 123-147.

Valodia, I., Joseph, S. L., Reddy, N., & Ewinyu, A. K. (2025). , 42(2), 189-195.

Goga, S., & Valodia, I. (2025). Ownership and inequality: , 42(2), 196-215.

Leuner, R., Aproskie, J., Valodia, I., & Ewinyu, A. (2025). , 42(2), 216-227.

Padayachie, K. M. (2025). , 42(2), 228-250

Klaaren, J., Moothoo Padayachie, K., & Shedi, O. (2025). , 1-24.

Reddy, N. (2025). Beyond ‘white monopoly capital’: , 42(2), 275-302.

Ncube, P. (2025). Power and coordination: 42(2), 303-319.

Goga, S., & Bell, J. (2025). , 42(2), 320-338.

Joseph, S. L., & Karuri-Sebina, G. (2025). 42(2), 339-361.

Chatterjee, A. (2025). Wealth inequality and elites in the global South. , 46(2), 205-215.

2023

Atria, J., Contreras, D. and Méndez, M.L., (2023) . Canadian Journal of Development Studies.

Mazwi, F. and Chambati, W. (2023). . The Canadian Journal of Development Studies.

Sklair, J. (2023), . Canadian Journal of Development Studies.

Anand, I., Thampi, A., and Vakulabharanam, V. (2023). . Canadian Journal of Development Studies.

Sachs, M., Ewinyu, A.K., and Olwethu, S. (2023)

Taylor, J. (2023) . Agenda

Mhlana, S., Moussie, R., Roever, S., and Rogan, M., UNU-WIDER Working Papers 2023/92

Maré, G. (2023) South African Historical Journal

Mhlana, S. (2023) . The Global Labour Journal

Dawson, H. (2023) . The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute.

Dawson, H. (2023) . Sage Journals.

Webster, E., Schmidt, V., Mhlana, S., and Forrest, K. (2023) ILO Working paper 86.

Webster, E., & Ludwig, C. (2023). .

Cottle, E. (2023). , 53(3), 274-296.

Rani, U., Castel-Branco, R., Satija, S., & Nayar, M. (2022). , 30(3), 421-435.

Castel-Branco, R., Mutoro, B., & Webster, E. (2023). 3(2), 243-257.

Castel-Branco, R., & Dawson, H. J. (2023). 3(2), 109-115.

Reddy, N. (2023). 21(1), 213-242.

2022

Dawson, H. (2022). Economy and Society.

Castel-Branco, R. (2022). . Actuel Marx.

Francis, D., Joseph, SJ., Sachs, M., and Valodia, I. (2022). . Transformation.

Francis, D., and Valodia, I. (2022). . Transformation.

Mashilo, A., and Moothilal, R. (2022). Transformation.

Cawe, A., Sachs, M., and Valodia, I. (2022). . Transformation.

Cook, S., Agartan, T., and Kaasch, A. (2022). . Global Social Policy.

Cook, S., and Staab, S. (2022). . Global Social Policy.

Martinez Franzoni, J., and Cook, S. (2022). Global Social Policy.

Webster, E., and Masikane, F. (2022) A comparative study of food courier riders in three African cities. Johannesburg. Friedrich Ebert Stiftung

2021

Francis, D., & Valodia, I. (2021). . Critical Social Policy.

Webster, E., & Kenny, B. (2021). The return of the labour process: race, skill, and technology in South African labour studies. .

Castel-Branco, R., & Mapukata, S. (2021). Digitalisation and post-work utopias: A view from the global South. .

Webster, E. (2021). Informal workers and flexible organisation: Seizing the Covid moment.

Webster, E., Ludwig, C., Masikane, F., & Spooner, D. (2021). Beyond traditional trade unionism: innovative worker responses in three African cities. , 1-14.

Kenny, B and Webster, E. 2021 . Work and the Global Economy.

Mashilo, A.M. and Webster, E. 2021. Networks: Workers' Power in South Africa. Journal of Labor and Society 24 (2021) 525-555

Mashilo, A. M. 2021 ', Book chapter in Economic and Social Upgrading in Global Value Chains: Comparative Analyses, Macroeconomic Effects, the Role of Institutions and Strategies for the Global South edited by Christina Teipen, Hansjorg Herr, Petra Dunhaupt, and Fabian Mehl

Bishoff, C., Masondo, T. and Webster, Webster, E. 2021 . Vol. 42 no 2

Mashilo, A.M. 2021 ‘Technological Revolution in the South African Automotive Manufacturing Industry and the Role of Labour’: Book chapter to be included in: South Africa Confronts the Fourth Industrial Revolution era—Challenges and Possibilities: Case Studies from key sectors edited by the Institute for Global Dialogue submitted Institute for Global Dialogue.

McGregor, W. and Webster, E. 2021. . Tempo Social. Brazil

2020

Webster, E. and Forrest, K. 2020. Role of the ILO during and after apartheid.

Webster, E. Ludwig, C., Masikane, F. and Spooner, D. 2021 Beyond traditional trade unionism: innovative worker responses in three African cities.

Webster, E 2020, ‘The Uberisation of work: the challenge of regulating platform capitalism: a commentary’. . Volume 34. Pp 512-521

Webster, E. 2000. ‘Rethinking the World of Work in Southern Africa: Building a Social Floor’, in Jan Fritz and Tina Uys (editors), . Cape Town: Juta Publishers. Pp183-200

Webster, E and Ludwig,C. (2023) . The Global Labour Journal.

Webster, E. (2020). Inequality, the pitfalls, and the promise of liberation in Africa-Shadow of Liberation: Contestation and Compromise in the Economic and Social Policy of the African National Congress, 1943-1996, by Vishnu Padayachee & Robert Van Niekerk: book review essay. 12(1), 293-298.

Webster, E., & O'Brien, R. (2020). Ten Years of the Global Labour Journal: Reflecting on the Rise of the New Global Labour Studies. , 11(1).

Webster, E. (2020). The Uberisation of work: the challenge of regulating platform capitalism. A commentary. , 1-10.

Webster, E., and Forest, K. 2020. The Role of the ILO during and after Apartheid. : 0160449X20967098.

Webster, E., and Ludwig, C. 2020. Decent Work for All: Rethinking Decent Work in the Context of South Africa. .

Webster, E. (2020) "Revisiting the legacy of Neil Aggett." , no. 1 (2020): 131-143.

2019

Espi, G., Francis, D., and Valodia, I. 2019. Gender inequality in the South African labour market: insights from the Employment Equity Act data.

Webster, A. and Webster, E. (2019). “Photo-essay: Jozi, the Precarious City of Gold. 9.2, pp.50-5

Francis, D., Roberts, G. and Valodia, I. (2019). South African Manufacturing Firms in Transition.

Francis, D., and Webster, E. (2019). Poverty and Inequality in South Africa: critical reflections.

Francis, D., and Webster, E. (2019). Inequality in South Africa.

Mosoetsa, S., and Francis, D. (2019). Framing Poverty and Inequality Studies in South Africa.

Webster, E. and Francis, D. (2019). The Paradox of Inequality in South Africa: a challenge from the workplace. Transformation 101

Schmalz, S, Ludwig, C and Webster, E. 2019. Power Resources and Global Capitalism,

Webster, E. and Englert, T. (2019). New Dawn or end of labour? From East Rand to Ekurhuleni,

Webster, E and Forrest, K. (2019). Precarious work: Experimenting with new forms of representation, South African labour responds. International Journal of labour Research

Chatterjee, A. 2019. Measuring wealth inequality in South Africa: an agenda. .

Sachs, M. 2019. Measuring wealth inequality in South Africa: an agenda. .

Webster, E. 2019. Confronting Inequality: The South African Crisis: A Review.

Special issues

Special issues archive

: Special Issue on Women, Work, and the Digital Economy

Volume 30, Issue 3, November 2022

We are delighted to present to you Gender & Development's November 2022 Issue focusing on 'Women, Work, and the Digital Economy'. Guest edited by Uma Rani and Ruth Castel-Branco, and co-edited by Shivani Satija and Mahima Nayar, this issue investigates the impact of digitalisation on women workers and the ways in which women navigate and assert themselves in this digital economy. It draws empirical evidence from diverse countries, including Argentina, Brazil, China, Ghana, India, Kenya, Mexico, Nigeria, Pakistan, South Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka, and Uganda.

: Special Issue on Black Empowerment in South Africa

Volume 109, 2022

Given its importance as the most far-reaching attempt, within the legal system, to address the legacy of dispossession and discrimination in South Africa, it is somewhat surprising that there has not been a systematic analysis of its nature, form and impact of BEE in South Africa. The papers in this collection lay an initial assessment of the form, character and impact of Black Economic Empowerment in South Africa in recent decades, based on data sources which have, until now, not been interrogated within the framework of the BEE literature.

The papers in this special issue highlight the fact that for all of its weaknesses, BEE has had an impact at addressing the nature of corporate ownership in South Africa and has significantly changed the racial character of some elements of the economy – for example, the nature of public sector employment, ownership in mining and other key sectors of the economy. But there is very little evidence that it has had much of an effect in addressing the persistent labour market inequalities which shape the lives of many workers. This special issue presents a new attempt at a wide-ranging, although not exhaustive, analysis of BEE broadly conceived. Together, the papers review the literature, methodology, and empirical effects of BEE in South Africa and provide a preliminary assessment of its impact in a number of spheres.

: Special Issue on Poverty and Inequality in South Africa

Volume 101, 2019

The Southern Centre for Inequality Studies is pleased to present a special issue of Transformation, focusing on poverty and inequality in South Africa. The issue is the culmination of two years of work by researchers at the universities of the Witwatersrand and Johannesburg as part of an interdisciplinary project examining poverty and inequality in contemporary South Africa.

In this focus issue, through a collection of articles located in different disciplines and employing different methodological approaches, we examine how work, households and space produce and reproduce poverty and inequality in South Africa. We are interested in the interactions between work and the broader society, and how these relationships are shaped by households, land and space. For work and access to work are not only the product of a set of characteristics of individuals but are shaped at the nexus of a number of social and economic forces: education, space, and the structural configuration of the economy. The articles in this issue provide a compelling analysis of the different understandings of poverty and inequality, and why they persist and are intensifying despite years of democracy and government policy interventions in South Africa.

: Special Issue on Inequality in South Africa

Volume 36, issue 6, 2019

The Southern Centre for Inequality Studies is pleased to announce the release of a special issue of Development Southern Africa focusing on inequality in South Africa. The articles in this special issue arise out of the inaugural inequality conference of the Southern Centre for Inequality Studies, in September 2018. This special issue brings together papers focusing on two main areas. The first is on conceptual questions relating to inequality, including a philosophical examination of the entrenchment of capabilities inequality, the role of the constitution in addressing inequality, and how we depict and conceive of inequality.

The second section presents a rich collection of papers examining the ways in which inequality is produced and reproduced in contemporary South Africa. These papers present a truly multi-disciplinary approach to the study of inequality. The articles in this issue provide a compelling analysis of the different understandings of inequality and why it is continuing and intensifying despite years of democracy and government policy interventions in South Africa. It is our hope that the work presented here not only contributes to the development and growth of inequality studies in South Africa but also deepens the debate on how inequality can be reduced.

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