RECASTING WORKERS' POWER, work and inequality in the shadow of the digital age

186pp., paperback, First SA Edition, Johannesburg, 2023

First published in the UK in 2023.

"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

"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

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 at the University of the Witwatersrand. He was the recipient of the first South African Sociological Association 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 and a Research Associate at the University of Johannesburg's SARCHI Chair in Social Change.