Africa

South Africa

Ph.D

University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

lucien.vanderwalt@wits.ac.za

School of Social Sciences
Department of Sociology
University of Witwatersrand
Private Bag 3
PO Box Wits
2050
Johannesburg
South Africa

phone: +27 (0) 11 717 4441
fax: +27 (0) 11 717 4459

South Africa

- Political economy, with a specific focus on neo-liberal restructuring of
state-owned enterprises and social welfare in southern Africa

- The history and sociology of labour movements, with particular reference
to southern Africa, and global labour history, with a focus on social
radicalism and transnationality

- Radical social theory, with a focus on anarchism and syndicalism.

- Political economy, with a specific focus on neo-liberal restructuring of
state-owned enterprises and social welfare in southern Africa

- The history and sociology of labour movements, with particular reference
to southern Africa, and global labour history, with a focus on social
radicalism and transnationality.

- Radical social theory, with a focus on anarchism and syndicalism

2002 "Pour une Histoire de l'Anti-impérialisme Anarchiste: dans
cette lutte, seuls les ouvriers et les paysans iront jusqu'au bout,"
Refractions, number 8.

2003 With Chris Bolsmann, Bernadette Johnson, and Lindsey Martin,
"Globalisation, the Market University and Support Service Outsourcing in
South Africa: class struggle, convergence and difference, 1994-2001,"
Society in Transition, volume 34, number 2.

2004 "Bakunin's Heirs in South Africa: race, class and revolutionary
syndicalism from the IWW to the International Socialist League,
1910-1921," Politikon: South African Journal of Political Studies, volume
30, number 1.

2004 "Reflections on Race and Anarchism in South Africa, 1904-2004,"
Perspectives on Anarchist Theory, volume 8, number 1.

2006 "Rethinking Welfare: a radical critique," South African Labour
Bulletin, volume 30, number 1.

2006 With James Pendlebury
"Neoliberalism, Bureaucracy and Resistance at Wits University," in Richard
Pithouse, editor, Asinamali: university struggles in post-apartheid South
Africa, Africa World Press, Trenton, New Jersey.

2006 With Nicole Ulrich.
"Labour History Revival: learning from the past," South African Labour
Bulletin, volume 30, number 4.

2007 "The First Globalisation and Transnational Labour Activism in
Southern Africa: White Labourism, the IWW and the ICU, 1904-1934," African
Studies, volume 66, number 2/3, "Special Issue: Transnational and
Comparative Perspectives on Southern African Labour History."

2007 With Philip Bonner and Jon Hyslop.
"Rethinking Worlds of Labour: southern African labour history in
international context", African Studies, volume 66, number 2/3, "Special
Issue: Transnational and Comparative Perspectives on Southern African
Labour History."

Forthcoming 2008 With Philip Bonner, Jon Hyslop, with assistance
of Andries Bezuidenhout and Nicole Ulrich.
"Transnational Workers' Movements," in Akira Iriye and Pierre-Yves
Saunier, editors, The Palgrave Dictionary of Transnational History,
Palgrave Macmillan, London, New York.

In press "Cycles of Accumulation, Cycles of Class Struggle:
apartheid, labour and liberation in South Africa," Holger Marcks and
Matthias Seiffert, editors, Die groBen Streiks: Episoden aus dem
Klassenkampf, Unrast-Bücher der Kritik, Münster

In press With Michael Schmidt.
Black Flame: the revolutionary class politics of anarchism and
syndicalism, volume 1 of "Counter Power: new perspectives on global
anarchism and syndicalism", AK Press, Edinburgh, San Francisco.

political economy ; state-owned enterprises ; social welfare ; Southern Africa ; social radicalism