NOTE: apologies for the somewhat misleading title. This paper, a follow up to one presented at a History Workshop conference at Wits a few years ago, looks more at the outcome of these struggles than the process of struggle during the 1970s itself. In that earlier paper I argued that between 1973 and 1980 Black workers proved able to use the feeble state reformist structures in a changing indus...

Manually annotating the rhetorical structure of texts is very labour-intensive. At the same time, high-quality automatic analysis is currently out of reach. We thus propose to split the manual annotation in two phases: the simpler marking of lexical connectives and their relations, and the more difficult decisions on overall tree structure. To this end, we developed an environment of two analys...

The present paper attempts to explore the conceptual challenges in research of prison labour and sketch contours a proposed theoretical framework, which can highlight connection between penal policy tendencies, market dynamics organizational practices regimes. Based on literature review, it is argued, that besides many existing narratives are focused, state also key agent generating, maintainin...

In the state of Punjab, heart green revolution in India, a large fraction agricultural labour is expended by migrant workers. The unplanned lockdown imposed Indian government affected paddy transplantation, labour-intensive activity Punjab primarily due to interstate restrictions on movement. Drawing primary survey village from Malwa region paper examines changes agrarian relations rural Covid-...