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DENOSA
INVITATION
DENOSA BROWN BAG LUNCH SEMINAR
DATE:
20 November 2014
TIME:
12:30 for 13:00
VENUE:
DENOSA, 605 Stanza Bopape Street, Pretoria, 0001
RSVP:
Peggy Motswatswa (012) 343-2315 ext. 252
peggym@denosa.org.za
TOPIC:
Taking Democracy Seriously? COSATU members' views
on Trade Union Democracy and Politics in SA
SPEAKERS:
Dr Malehoko Tshoaedi & Ms Christine Bischoff
Malehoko Tshoaedi is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology, Pretoria
University, where she teaches Industrial Sociology - Labour movement studies; and
Gender studies. She is also the co-editor (2012) (with Buhlungu, Sakhela) of the book
titled: COSATU’s Contested Legacy: South African Trade Unions in the Second Decade
of Democracy. HSRC: Cape Town.
Christine Bischoff (Psoulis) is a research consultant. She has worked on the past
surveys of COSATU members, NUM members and NUMSA members. She has a
Masters from WITS in Sociology and has expertise in quantitative methodology. Her
publications include, Webster, E. And Bischoff, C. (2011), “New actors in employment
relations in the periphery: closing the representation gap amongst micro and small
enterprises”, Industrial Relations/Relations Industrielle, 66(1), Wood, G. and Psoulis,
C. (2001), “Mobilization, Internal Cohesion and Organized Labor” in Work and
Occupations, Vol.28, No.3, August, Buhlungu, S. and Psoulis, C. (1999) “Enduring
Solidarities: Accounting for the continuity of support for the Alliance amongst Cosatu
Members” in Society in Transition, 30 (2), 1999.