Franco started following the work of Themba Moses, University of Cape Town, Political Studies.
Franco started following the work of Nicholas Kiersey, Ohio University, Political Science.
Franco started following the work of Shannon Walsh, University of Johannesburg, South Africa, Research Chair for Social Change.
Faculty Member, African American and African Studies
Associate Professor
About
PhD 2006 (Sociology - University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa); BA-Hons, MA 1997 (Sociology - University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa); BA 1991 (Politics - University of Bologna, Italy).
NEW BOOK: "Precarious Liberation: Workers, the State, and Contested Social Citizenship in Postapartheid South Africa" (Albany: State University of New York Press; Pietermaritzburg: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2011). My doctoral dissertation in Sociology at the School of Social Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, is titled "Social Citizenship and the Transformations of Waged Labor in the Making of Post-Apartheid South Africa, 1994-2001". My research interests are in the study of African labor movements, with particular regard to Southern Africa, in relation to changing forms of employment, collective identities, civil society, social movements, social policy, and social citizenship. On these issues I have recently edited (with Tom Bramble) a book on "Rethinking the Labour Movement in the 'New South Africa'" (London: Ashgate, 2003). I have also published articles in, among others: "African Studies Review", "Journal of Southern African Studies", "Journal of Asian and African Studies", "Urban Forum", "International Labor and Working Class History", "Review. Fernand Braudel Center", "Historical Materialism", "Antipode", "Rethinking Marxism", "Review of African Political Economy", "Critical Sociology", "Monthly Review", and "Labour, Capital and Society".
My past work experience: 1996-2002: Lecturer, Dept of Sociology, School of Social Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg; 2002-2005: Assistant Professor, African Studies, University of Bologna, Italy.
