l'Afrique

L'Afrique du Sud

Senior Lecturer

Rand Afrikaans University, Auckland Park, South Africa

pa@lw.rau.ac.za

Sociology Department
Rand Afrikaans University
P.O. Box 524
Auckland Park 2006
South Africa

phone: +27 11 489 2884
fax: +27 11 489 2879

South Africa.

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.

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.

labour ; race ; class ; globalization.