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Excellent summary of issues currently facing labour organising in the digital age and in the economy. Precarity is at the heart of the modern capitalist world system’s strategy of accumulation. But workers are not resigned into defeat but are actively responding in new ways.

Part 1: 🚨 Invitation | #SCISBookLaunch Southern Centre for Inequality Studies is pleased to invite you to a book launch with Prof Edward Webster, author of a new book on work & inequality in the digital age. Registration: In-person: tinyurl.com/4f7jazmw Online: shorturl.at/hinvT Details👇

Part 2: 🚨 Invitation | #SCISBookLaunch Book title: Recasting Workers' Power: Work and Inequality in the Shadow of the Digital Age (Bristol Uni Press/Wits University Press) Edward Webster Wits University

Varieties of platform unionism: a view from the Global South on workers’ power in the digital economy doi.org/10.1332/273241…

Chapter 51: Precariousness and push-back: capital circuits, labour markets and working-class politics in South Africa doi.org/10.4337/978183…

EDWARD WEBSTER: Labour’s future hangs in the balance businesslive.co.za/bd/opinion/202… via BusinessLIVE

Negotiations by workers in the informal economy ilo.org/global/publica… via International Labour Organization

Janice Fine explains how “co-enforcement”—a bold new model for upholding labor law—is linking the state to social movements. bostonreview.net/articles/a-gra… Review Email Subscribers

LANDIWE J MAHLANGU AND KGANKI MATABANE: When economics and the law meet businesslive.co.za/bd/opinion/202… via BusinessLIVE

Building the car while driving it: organising platform workers in the e-hailing sector in Kenya doi.org/10.1332/273241…

South Africa’s wage gap is huge: why companies should report what CEOs and workers earn theconversation.com/south-africas-… via The Conversation Africa

The remaking of working classes: digital labour platforms and workers’ struggles in the global South doi.org/10.1332/273241…

Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech ft.com/content/9b37ec… via Financial Times

Astra Taylor talks with Rutgers faculty union president Todd Wolfson about organizing academic communities in the age of COVID-19. bostonreview.net/articles/astra… Review Email Subscribers

Election 2024 [4]: The Western Cape and the rise of the small parties inside-politics.org/2024/01/08/ele…

DAVID DICKINSON and THABANG MOHLALA: Labour broking alive and well while the CCMA bumbles businesslive.co.za/bd/opinion/202… via BusinessLIVE

JONNY STEINBERG: Whatever the ruling in The Hague, SA wins and law loses businesslive.co.za/bd/opinion/col… via BusinessLIVE

John Saul and the Meaning of Solidarity socialistproject.ca/2024/02/john-s…

Tyla, water and the racialised history of injustice against indigenous ‘coloured’ women dailymaverick.co.za/opinionista/20…

The end of labour or the beginning of a new cycle of union growth? amandla.org.za/the-end-of-lab…