Labour, Land, and Livelihoods in Crisis: New Conversations on the Future of work

This two-day event made a timely intervention in conversations on the future of work and inequality in South Africa by placing these debates within the context of the interlinked challenges of under/unemployment, livelihoods, and worker organization. The culmination of a year-long collaboration between the Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice and the Labour, Development and Governance Unit at the University of Cape Town Faculty of Law, the event brought together a diverse set of participants from a variety of contexts, including academics, land reform activists, labour organizers, policy makers, and public commentators, to consider the past, present, and future of work and livelihoods in South Africa, and to generate much-needed responses that can productively confront uneven power relations and entrenched forms of racialized and gendered economic marginality.