SWOP, together with Wits University Press and LARC are excited to announce the launch of a new book Land, Law and Chiefs in Rural South...

Beyond the Wage: A panel discussion to celebrate the launch of a new book SCIS and SWOP invite you to an online panel discussion to...

Violent States, States of Violence Principal Investigators: Prof Garth Stevens (Department of Psychology) and Prof Karl von Holdt (SWOP)...

Jacklyn Cock, a staff member at SWOP, has been appointed to the Cosatu Panel of Experts on a just transition from coal for workers. The...

Hannah Dawson, a Postdoctoral Fellow at SWOP, has recently written about the extension of the COVID-19 grant and the need for a basic...

SWOP is looking to appoint a Senior Researcher to join its team. The candidate should have an established body of scholarship and be...

Dr Dineo Skosana is a researcher at the Society, Work and Politics Institute, has published a recent piece Mine, not yours:When will...

ian.macqueen@up.ac.za This is an adapted version of an article published on the University of Pretoria website. Read the original here....

Dineo Skosana and Jacklyn Cock have drafted a paper that is now available for download. “Our Existence is Resistance”: Women and the...

“Knowledge co-production with social movement networks. Redefining grassroots politics, rethinking research” by SWOP associate Alberto...

Pandemic has exposed the problems with our economic system and reliance on wage work for economic security writes Hannah Dawson, Shaeera...

Editor’s note from the Global Labour Journal: Bill Freund died on 17 August 2020, shortly after submitting this review. He was an...

The September 2020 issue of the Global Labour Journal is now available online. You can access all of the articles here:...

WISER is hosting an online seminar presented by Karl von Holdt on Monday 28 September 2020 at 16h00 "From ‘critical engagement’ to...

This is the final piece in the series on BRICS and Covid that is being published in The Wire. The piece is written by Aparna Sundar and...