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Much of the debate on the future of work has focused on responses to technological trends in the Global North, with little evidence on how these trends are impacting work and workers in the Global South. Drawing on a rich selection of ethnographic studies of precarious work in Africa, this innovative book discusses how globalisation and digitalisation are drivers for structural change, and examines their implications for labour. Bringing together global labour studies and inequality studies, it explores the role of digital technology in new business models, and ways in which digitalisation can be harnessed for counter-mobilisation by the new worker.

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9781529218794

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"""Webster and his colleagues have done it again! Their careful ethnographic studies offer a much-needed perspective from Africa on the central challenges facing labour worldwide: the disruptive impact of digital technologies and how workers can mobilise in response."" Ruth Milkman, City University of New York ""Refuting pessimistic accounts of the decline of worker power, Webster has written a masterful account of new worker struggles in the Global South, with valuable lessons for the Global North."" Chris Tilly, University of California, Los Angeles ""Knowledge production must show how worker resistance can be harnessed into a global movement to confront exploitation. This collection explores how real problems and processes should be the focus of research and the analysis of its findings."" Akua O Britwum, University of Cape Coast 'Workers as helpless victims of new technology? Not so argues Eddie Webster in this powerful book on labour's innovative forms of organisation and new power resources in the Global South. A must read!' Andreas Bieler, University of Nottingham"

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Edward Webster is Distinguished Research Professor at the Southern Centre of Inequality Studies and the founder and past director of the Society, Work and Development Institute (SWOP) at the University of the Witwatersrand. Professor Webster was the recipient of the first South African Sociological Association (SASA) lifetime award for his contribution to the academic study of the sociology of work and labour in South Africa. Lynford Dor is a Doctoral Researcher at KU Leuven's Centre for Sociological Research (CESO) and a Research Associate at the University of Johannesburg's SARCHI Chair in Social Change (CSC).

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