Peter Alexander (Rand Afrikaans University, Auckland Park, South Africa)

Submitted: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 20:28:20 +0200


Dr Peter Alexander
Senior Lecturer
Sociology Department
Rand Afrikaans University
P.O. Box 524
Auckland Park 2006
South Africa

phone:  +27 11 489 2884
fax:    +27 11 489 2879
e-mail: pa@lw.rau.ac.za


Peter Alexander's principal research has been on South African labour
history.  His Ph.D thesis, 'Industrial Conflict, Race and the South
African State, 1939-1948' (London, 1994), 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. 
Two articles drawn from this study have been published and a revised
version of his dissertation has been submitted for publication as a book. 

Alexander 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.  As part of this project 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. 

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.