Michelle Williams

Michelle Williams is Professor of Sociology at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), Johannesburg, South Africa. She is chairperson of the Global Labour University Programme (GLU) at Wits, chairperson of the International GLU Steering Committee , and a member of the board of the Wits Development Studies program. Her publications include The Roots of Participatory Democracy: Democratic Communists in South Africa and Kerala, India and Building Alternatives: The Story of India’s Oldest Worker Owner Cooperative (co-authored with Thomas Isaac).