Work restructuring and Social Reproduction

This four-year NRF-funded project falls under the focus area, Challenge of Globalisation: Perspectives from the Global South and began in 2005. It involves an examination of the relationship between work restructuring and social reproduction in Southern Africa and the Global South. The overarching aim of this project is to investigate whether a Polanyian counter-movement is emerging in the South and the possibilities of an alternative development path.

The project involves a focus on three specific themes:

• post-colonial Workplace Regimes in Southern Africa (See second research cluster, Andries Bezuidenhout)
• The household economy and the community (See third research cluster, Sarah Mosoetsa)
• The state, unions and social movements (See fourth research cluster, Sakhela Buhlungu)
  

These themes will be discussed under the future plans of the other three research clusters.