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Nicholas Rush Smith

Nicholas Rush Smith is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the City University of New York – City College and Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Sociology, University of Johannesburg. He is the author of Contradictions of Democracy: Vigilantism and Rights in Post-Apartheid South Africa.

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Class & Inequality, Global Justice

What 30 Percent Unemployment Looks Like

As we know from South Africa's crisis, political and social fault lines will shape the contours of joblessness.

Nicholas Rush Smith

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