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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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Wealth tax has always been a contentious issue in the country, even as South African wealth inequality has remained significantly higher than in France, UK, US, China, Russia and India. Now that the Covid-19 lockdown and relief measures are having severe impacts on public debt, while reducing expected tax revenues and increasing necessary expenditure, is it time for a wealth tax? Public debt is likely to spike to hazardous levels and even with the rescue financing, South Africa’s capacity to repay debts needs to be supported, researchers from the Southern Centre for Inequality Studies (SCIS) at Wits University, the Université.