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26 February 2021 - SCIS
Today we speak to Ruth Castel-Branco, Research Manager – Technology and the Future of Work(ers) Southern Centre for Inequality Studies (SCIS).
This is an ongoing series where we introduce some key researchers and academics getting to understand their work, their developing research interests as well as what keeps them engaged.
Explain the nature of your work and/or how it relates to inequality.
I manage the research project on Technology and the Future of Work(ers), which explores how digital innovation is reshaping the world of work and inequality. After all, work is the primary source of sustenance across the world. The project conceives of work as productive and reproductive, formal and informal, paid and unpaid. To capture the diversity of experience within the global South, we focus on five countries: Colombia, Ethiopia, India, Mozambique and South Africa. Importantly, we conceive of digitalisation as a contested process and are thus especi
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Carnegie Corporation of New York organized its first staff trip to East and South Africa in 1927, visiting 124 educational institutions in all. Corporation president Frederick Keppel and his team were “continually drawing attention to the pitifully unsuitable textual and illustrative content of the primers and educational posters used little English boys in straw hats, sailing little boats at the seaside.” Keppel was moved to make a $5,000 grant to support the publication of more suitable teaching materials.