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NEIL AGGETT LABOUR STUDIES UNIT (NALSU)
Labour Studies Seminar Series, Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网
SEMINAR & WEBINAR: Wednesday 22 May 2023 4pm, Sociology A and online via Zoom(details below).
SPEAKER AND TOPIC: Lincoln Addison, Memorial 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 in Canada: “ Chiefs of the Plantation: Authority and Contestation on the South Africa-Zimbabwe Border"
THE PAPER: How have labour relations changed in South African agriculture since the end of apartheid? Drawing on ethnographic research on a plantation located along the South Africa-Zimbabwe border, I argue that labour control hinges upon a delegation of authority from white land owners to black Zimbabwean managers. These labour relations facilitate intensive fruit production, but also enable lower-ranking migrant workers to access natural resources, steal plantation property and contest piece rates.
SPEAKER: Lincoln Addison is an Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Memorial 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 in Canada. He is an economic and environmental anthropologist whose research focuses on labour, gender and agrarian change in South Africa and Zimbabwe.
JOINING: Please register in advance by going to: https://tinyurl.com/ymdnduhk
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HOSTS: The series is run by the Neil Aggett Labour Studies Unit (NALSU) in partnership with the Departments of Sociology & Industrial Sociology, and Economics & Economic History, Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网.
NALSU, based in the Eastern Cape, South Africa, is engaged in policy, research and workers' education. Built around a vibrant team from disciplines including Sociology and Economics & Economic History, it has active partnerships and relations with a range of advocacy, labour and research organisations. It draws strength from its location in a province where the legacy of apartheid and the cheap labour system, and the contradictions of the post-apartheid state, are keenly felt. We are named in honour of Dr Neil Hudson Aggett, a union organiser and medical doctor who died in 1982 in an apartheid jail after enduring brutality and torture.