Career: Roger Southall is Honorary Research Professor in the Sociology of Work Unit (SWOP) at the University of the Witwatersrand. Before joining SWOP, Professor Southall was a Distinguished Research Fellow at the Democracy and Governance (D&G) Research Programme of the Human Sciences Research Council of South Africa and Professor and Head of the Department of Political Studies at Rhodes University. Before this, he taught and researched in academic institutions and think-tanks in Lesotho, Uganda, the UK, and Canada. Roger Southall is Managing Editor of the Journal of Contemporary African Studies (see url below).

Publications include: International Solidarity and Labour in South Africa (co-author) 2004, State of the Nation: South Africa 2007 (co-editor) 2006; numerous articles in professional journals

Contact details: Address: Sociology of Work Unit, University of the Witwatersrand, PO WITS, 1 Jan Smuts Avenue, Braamfontein, Gauteng, 2050 South Africa; Tel: +27 (0)11 717-4460; Email: roger.southall@wits.ac.za ; Website: http://www.sociologyworkunit.org/ ; Website: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/02589001.asp/ .