Francis Wilson Author & Editor

Leslie J. Bank is a Deputy Director at the Human Sciences Research Council in Cape Town and an emeritus professor of social anthropology at the University of Fort Hare, where he was formerly the Director of Social and Economic Research. His previous books include Home Spaces, Street Styles: Contesting Power and Identity in a South African City (Pluto Press, London, 2011); Inside African Anthropology: Monica Wilson and her Interpreters (edited with A. Bank, Cambridge University Press, 2013); Imonti Modern: Picturing the Life and Times of a South African Location (with Mxolisi Qebeyi, HSRC Press, 2017) and Anchored in Place: Universities and City Building in South Africa (edited with N. Cloete, African Minds, 2018).

Dorrit (Dori) Posel holds the Helen Suzman Chair in Political Economy, and is a distinguished professor in the School of Economics and Finance at the University of the Witwatersrand. She specialises in applied microeconomic research, exploring the interface between households and labour markets in South Africa. From 2007 to 2015 Dori held an NRF/DST Research Chair in Economic Development at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. Dori received a PhD in economics from the University of Massachusetts (Amherst) in 1999 and has since been the recipient of numerous research awards, including the Vice Chancellor’s Research Award in 2005. She has published widely on issues related to marriage and family formation, labour force participation, labour migration, the economics of language, and measures of wellbeing.

Francis Wilson is a South African economist. He was a member of the academic teaching staff in the School of Economics at the University of Cape Town and served as the director of the Southern African Labour and Development Research Unit (SALDRU), which he founded. He was also a visiting professor at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. In 2001, Wilson chaired the International Social Science Council’s Scientific Committee of the International Comparative Research Program on Poverty. After obtaining his PhD in Cambridge he returned to UCT and published three immensely influential pieces of research: in 1971 Farming 1866-1966, a chapter in the Oxford History of South Africa; and in 1972 Labour in the South African Gold Mines 1911-1969 was published by Cambridge University Press out of his PhD.