Thabang Sefalafala
Biographic Data
| ID | 4461673 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thabang Sefalafala |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thabang |
| FAMILY NAME | Sefalafala |
| SIGNATURE | SEFALAFALA T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the Witwatersrand |
| ORCID | 0009-0006-6993-4778 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Reclaiming Wage-Work
Amidst global labour insecurity and rising unemployment, a growing body of scholarship has called for the decentring of wage-work from the social and political imagination. For some scholars, this has involved a recentring of the study of entrepreneurship; for others, a focus on the possibilities of repeasantisation; still others have argued for the need to shift away from politics at the point of production altogether, and towards redistribution…
Beyond the Income
“Beyond the income” puts emphasis on the need to go beyond income loss to understand the meaning of wage labour, and the effects that unemployment and inequality have on people. This ethnographic and in-depth interview-based research focused on the experiences of unemployment among South African black men—ex-mine workers in their fifties and sixties who had worked on the Welkom goldfields—and found that they suffered three types of loss: economic…
Informalization and decent work
This article identifies a growing number of workers falling outside the regulatory net of both the state and the trade union movement in South Africa on the basis of an examination of working conditions among private security guards and survivalist enterprises in the clothing sector. Traditional unions have had limited success in organizing these sectors because of the composition of the workforce as well as the nature of their work. New forms of…
Working as a Security Guard
The private security industry has grown rapidly over the past two decades generating a widespread debate on how it can best be regulated and professionalised. Drawing on a survey of 1 205 security guards and twenty-five in-depth interviews we examine the neglected question of working conditions in the industry. The industry is characterised by insecure employment, low wages, long working hours with very few having access to social benefits. Above…
Informalization and decent work
This article identifies a growing number of workers falling outside the regulatory net of both the state and the trade union movement in South Africa on the basis of an examination of working conditions among private security guards and survivalist enterprises in the clothing sector. Traditional unions have had limited success in organizing these sectors because of the composition of the workforce as well as the nature of their work. New forms of…
Working as a Security Guard
The private security industry has grown rapidly over the past two decades generating a widespread debate on how it can best be regulated and professionalised. Drawing on a survey of 1 205 security guards and twenty-five in-depth interviews we examine the neglected question of working conditions in the industry. The industry is characterised by insecure employment, low wages, long working hours with very few having access to social benefits. Above…
Informalization and decent work
This article identifies a growing number of workers falling outside the regulatory net of both the state and the trade union movement in South Africa on the basis of an examination of working conditions among private security guards and survivalist enterprises in the clothing sector. Traditional unions have had limited success in organizing these sectors because of the composition of the workforce as well as the nature of their work. New forms of…
Beyond the Income
“Beyond the income” puts emphasis on the need to go beyond income loss to understand the meaning of wage labour, and the effects that unemployment and inequality have on people. This ethnographic and in-depth interview-based research focused on the experiences of unemployment among South African black men—ex-mine workers in their fifties and sixties who had worked on the Welkom goldfields—and found that they suffered three types of loss: economic…
Reclaiming Wage-Work
Amidst global labour insecurity and rising unemployment, a growing body of scholarship has called for the decentring of wage-work from the social and political imagination. For some scholars, this has involved a recentring of the study of entrepreneurship; for others, a focus on the possibilities of repeasantisation; still others have argued for the need to shift away from politics at the point of production altogether, and towards redistribution…
Political science (4 works) · Economic growth (3 works) · Economics (3 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (3 works) · Engineering (3 works) · Labor Movements and Unions (3 works) · Labour economics (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Business (2 works)