Labour Disrupted

Analyses the fragmentation and future of labour movements in the context of globalisation, the fourth industrial revolution and the Covid-19 pandemic.

Published in the 50th anniversary year of the 1973 Durban strikes, this volume honours this milestone by reflecting on the past and the future of labour, primarily in South Africa but also globally. It focuses on how South Africa’s lockdown during the Covid-19 pandemic further exposed key contradictions and challenges that labour movements face.Analyses the fragmentation and future of labour movements in South Africa and globally in the context of globalisation, the fourth industrial revolution and the Covid-19 pandemic.