Ruth Castel-Branco

Ruth Castel Branco is the Research Manager for the Future of Work(ers) project at the Southern Centre for Inequality Studies, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. She holds a MA in Development Studies from the University of KwaZulu-Natal (2012), a BA in Geography and African Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (2005); and is finalizing her PhD in Sociology at the University of the Witwatersrand. Previously she worked as ILO program coordinator for social protection in Mozambique, and a labor organized with Jobs with Justice in the United States. Her research interests include social protection, minimum wages and (informal) worker organizing.