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Humanities seminar series- third talk

The School of Humanities invites you to the third Humanities Series Hybrid Talk

Title: Delivery gig work organisation, workers experiences and responses in Kimberley, South Africa

Speaker: Dr Crispen Chinguno, Department of Social Sciences, SPU

Date: Wednesday, 23 August 2023   

Time: 12:30 – 14:00   

Venue: Museum Lab, Humanities Building, or join online here.


Speaker Bio: 

Crispen Chinguno (PhD) is a Senior Lecturer (Industrial and Economic Sociology) at Sol Plaatje University (SPU). His research interrogates how work is organised and changes over time and the embedded contestations. He is a National Research Foundation (NRF) rated researcher and a Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET) Future Professor Fellow. He is an alumnus of the Global Labour University (GLU) and the International Centre for Decent Work and Development (ICDD) at the University of Kassel in Germany. He graduated with a PhD in Sociology from the University of the Witwatersrand in 2015. His work has been published in several book chapters and journals including the Review of the African Political Economy, British Journal of Industrial Relations, Global Labour Journal, the New South African Review, to mention a few. He currently teaches undergraduate and postgraduate programmes and supervises postgraduate students at SPU, the University of the Free State and at the University of the Witwatersrand. His current work focuses on digital society and the transformation of work and labour and communities in the extractive sector. He recently started a new research project focusing on the digital society and the impact of digital technology on the organization of work.

 

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