African Labour Studies: Conceptual Shifts and Empirical Realities
About this ebook
Through rich case studies and comparative analysis, contributors interrogate how concepts such as class, labour market segmentation, power resources and worker agency have been deployed and contested in African contexts. In doing so, the book demonstrates how African empirical realities invite a rethinking of labour studies and its theoretical foundations.
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About the author
Mohammad Amir Anwar is Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in African Studies and International Development at the University of Edinburgh and a Senior Research Associate at the University of Johannesburg. He is co-author of The Digital Continent: Placing African in the Planetary Networks of Work (Oxford University Press, 2022).
Hannah J. Dawson is Associate Professor of Anthropology in the Anthropology and Development Studies Department at the University of Johannesburg. She is author of Making a Life: Young Men on Johannesburg’s Urban Margins (Wits University Press, 2025)
Nelson Oppong is Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) at the Centre of African Studies, University of Edinburgh, and a Senior Research Associate in Sociology at Rhodes University. His work brings together interdisciplinary research and extensive policy engagement on international development, governance, human rights, extractive industries, environmental change, and political economy across Africa, the Caribbean, and the Pacific.
