Are indigenous textile makers fashion’s latest victims?
The Oma people, a small indigenous community in Laos, are the antithesis of the speed of today’s fashion industry. The streets of their small villages […]
Marginalised workers
Delegates say 4IR should not be used for profits
On the last day of the farmworkers conference at the UWC, the farmworkers warned against the use of technology for super-profits.
Farmworkers tell of poor working and living conditions
The fact that farmworkers work the land under working and living conditions that have not changed since the Western Cape strike of 2012 should be […]
Farmworkers’ organisations demand “real ethical standards and trading” from wine monopolies
The quantity and quality of wine available in Scandinavia is strictly controlled by the governments and tenders are issued for wine producers.
Shoprite uses private paramilitary security to intimidate workers
A heavy security presence has marked the Cape Town leg of a strike by Transpharm workers, led by the General Industrial Workers Union of South […]
The invisible workplace accident rate
Nurses providing hospital care, delivery people delivering food to homes, domestic workers cleaning hotel rooms, office workers accumulating overtime hours, waiters and waitresses taking on […]
UAWU strike continues despite no meeting with UCT
The leaders of the striking workers at the University of Cape Town are hopeful that their alliance with students will be beneficial to their demand […]
UAWU vow to intensify the strike for insourcing
The workers have been on strike for 2 weeks demanding to be insourced by the University of Cape Town.
Workers strike for insourcing by UCT
A group of about 50 workers, working at UCT but employed by ‘service providers’, took part in a strike to be insourced by the university.
Between high rates of HIV/AIDS and punitive new trafficking laws, India’s sex workers are struggling to assert their humanity
Gauri Dobe vividly remembers the last day of her childhood. It was a summer afternoon, and she had just finished devouring some mangoes. As she […]
Retraining and upskilling: solutions for the future of (human) work?
In three years’ time, 42 per cent of task hours will be performed by machines or algorithms and humans will take care of the remaining […]
As young Croatians head west, employers are looking to foreign and retired workers to tackle labour shortages
Wine is a family business for Toni Katunar. His family has been producing wine for decades, and their 20,000 vines are located on the paradise […]
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