Lucien Van Der Walt (University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa)

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Dr. Lucien van der Walt
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
e-mail:    lucien.vanderwalt@wits.ac.za


Research and teaching interests:

- 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


Publications

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.