Essays in Southern African Labour History (editor: Eddie Webster)

Published by Ravan Press, 1978, softcover, 248 pages, condition: as new.

Eddie Webster, sociologist and emeritus professor at the Southern Centre for Inequality Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand was an intellectual, a teacher, a leader, an activist for social change, a builder of institutions, and a man of great energy and integrity.

As an intellectual and activist he was independent and critical, who said it was important to get your hands dirty working for change,  but as important to retain your autonomy and intellectual integrity. Eddie saw the world in new ways and pioneered the production of new knowledge with  his close colleague, feminist and environmental sociologist jacklyn Cock, anthropologist and democratic activist David Webster (assassinated in 1989), and distinguished historian Phil Bonner.

Eddie inspired generations of us with his vision and practice of critically engaged scholarship not only in South Africa , but globally.