She works on labour, gender and consumption with specific focus on service work, precarious employment, and political subjectivity. Her book Retail Worker Politics, Race and Consumption in South Africa: Shelved in the Service Economy (Palgrave Macmillan) is forthcoming in 2017. She also co-edited the volumeWalmart in the Global South: Local Practices, State Regulations, and Labor Politics in the Time of Transnational Capital(with Carolina Bank Muñoz and Antonio Stecher)forthcoming in 2017 (University of Texas Press-Austin). She is currently on the Editorial Board of the Global Labour Journal and African Studies.She is the President of Research Committee 44-Labour Movements of the International Sociological Association (2014-2018). She has worked with the South African labour movement for twenty-five years.