Peter Alexander

Region of Interest	Africa
Primary Country of Residence	South Africa
Title	Senior Lecturer
Affiliation	Rand Afrikaans University, Auckland Park, South Africa
Email	pa@lw.rau.ac.za
Mailing Address	Sociology Department Rand Afrikaans University P.O. Box 524 Auckland Park 2006 South Africa
Phone/Fax Number(s)	phone: +27 11 489 2884 fax: +27 11 489 2879
Countries of Specialization	South Africa.
Research Interests	Peter Alexander's principal research has been on South African labour history. He focuses on race relations among workers in a period when there was a high level of industrial unrest, and it relates this unrest to a consideration of the origins of apartheid. He has been engaged in post-doctoral research comparing coal miners in the Transvaal and Alabama, particularly in the 1920s, looking at 'race' and labour, and he is planning to publish a number of articles based on this work. Other interests include racism and anti-racism (on which he has published a book), African labour studies, comparative labour studies, race and class, and globalization.
Publications	Two articles based on his Ph.D thesis ('Industrial Conflict, Race and the South African State, 1939-1948'; London, 1994), have been published and a revised version of his dissertation has been submitted for publication as a book. As part of his post-doctoral project on coal miners in the Transvaal and Alabama, he organized a major conference on 'Labour and Difference in Africa, USA and Britain', and intends to co-edit collections of papers presented to this conference.
Keywords	labour ; race ; class ; globalization.