Edward Webster

Edward Webster is a Distinguished Research Professor at the Southern Centre for Inequality Studies. He is also the founder of the Society, Work and Development Institute (SWOP) at the University of the Witwatersrand, which he directed for 24 years. He is the author of seven books and more than 100 academic articles as well as numerous research reports. Among his publications is Grounding Globalisation: Labour in the Age of Insecurity, written with Rob Lambert and Andries Bezuidenhout. Winner of the 2008 Distinguished Scholarly Monograph Prize, awarded by the American Sociological Association’s Labor and Labor Movements Section. He is currently completing a manuscript on Work and Inequality in the Digital Age, a southern perspective on the future of labour. Webster has been awarded an honorary doctorate by Rhodes University and Wits.