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Franco Barchiesi

Social Sciences · The Ohio State University

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Established · publishing since 1996
Labor Movements and UnionsLegal Issues in South AfricaSouth African History and CultureEmployment and Welfare StudiesPolitical Economy and Marxism

Publications

91

Citations

1,009

Est. group size

—

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

31

Publishing since 1996

Research summary
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Franco Barchiesi's research examines labor movements, precarious and informal work, and social citizenship, with a particular focus on South Africa and the broader African continent. More recent work engages with questions of race, Blackness, and political theology in relation to labor and historical narratives of freedom and citizenship. This research sits within Social Sciences and draws on political economy, labor history, and critical theory.

Labor movements and unionsPrecarious and informal work in AfricaSouth African political economy and historySocial citizenship and welfareRace, Blackness, and political theory

Publication output was relatively active from 2017-2019, dropped to near zero between 2020 and 2024, and has shown a modest recent uptick in 2025-2026.

Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 0.8/year recently
2017: 4 publications172018: 5 publications182019: 8 publications8192020: 2 publications20212223242025: 3 publications252026: 1 publication26
Recent publications
Publishes in
  • International Labor and Working-Class History×7
  • Safundi×2
  • Journal of Southern African Studies×1
  • Open Cultural Studies×1
  • Boydell & Brewer eBooks×1
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Last updated Jul 19, 2026.

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