Bridget Kenny

Bridget Kenny

University of the Witwatersrand

H-index: 17

Africa-South Africa

About Bridget Kenny

Bridget Kenny, With an exceptional h-index of 17 and a recent h-index of 9 (since 2020), a distinguished researcher at University of the Witwatersrand, specializes in the field of labour, labor, service work, retail, gender.

His recent articles reflect a diverse array of research interests and contributions to the field:

The “Shop Girl” and White Nationalism: White Working-class Women and Femininity in Johannesburg Department Stores, 1930s–1970s

Special Section on Productive Hierarchies in Global Perspectives: Gendered Skill, Labor Control and Workplace Politics

“A LOOT-a continua”? Inequality, humour, and broken aspirations in South African consumer culture

Reproducing “racial capitalism” through retailing in South Africa: gender, labour and consumption, 1950s–1970s

The ordinary lives of crisis: transformations in the realm of work in South Africa and Romania

Making (and enduring) feminist relations

The labour process and workers’ rights at Mercado Libre: hiding exploitation through regulation in the digital economy

1| The Politics of Gendered Labour

Bridget Kenny Information

University

Position

Professor of Sociology

Citations(all)

904

Citations(since 2020)

327

Cited By

633

hIndex(all)

17

hIndex(since 2020)

9

i10Index(all)

27

i10Index(since 2020)

9

Email

University Profile Page

University of the Witwatersrand

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Bridget Kenny Skills & Research Interests

labour

labor

service work

retail

gender

Top articles of Bridget Kenny

Title

Journal

Author(s)

Publication Date

The “Shop Girl” and White Nationalism: White Working-class Women and Femininity in Johannesburg Department Stores, 1930s–1970s

International Labor and Working-Class History

Bridget Kenny

2023/10

Special Section on Productive Hierarchies in Global Perspectives: Gendered Skill, Labor Control and Workplace Politics

International Labor and Working-Class History

Görkem Akgöz

Bridget Kenny

2023/10

“A LOOT-a continua”? Inequality, humour, and broken aspirations in South African consumer culture

Consumption Markets & Culture

Mehita Iqani

Bridget Kenny

2023/5/4

Reproducing “racial capitalism” through retailing in South Africa: gender, labour and consumption, 1950s–1970s

Ethnic and Racial Studies

Bridget Kenny

2023/12/10

The ordinary lives of crisis: transformations in the realm of work in South Africa and Romania

History and Technology

Alina-Sandra Cucu

Bridget Kenny

2023/4/3

Making (and enduring) feminist relations

Bridget Kenny

2023/12

The labour process and workers’ rights at Mercado Libre: hiding exploitation through regulation in the digital economy

Work in the Global Economy

Maurizio Atzeni

2023/11/26

1| The Politics of Gendered Labour

ETHNOGRAPHIES OF POWER

Bridget Kenny

2022/8/1

Ethnographies of Power: Working Radical Concepts with Gillian Hart

Sharad Chari

Jennifer Devine

Michael Ekers

Jennifer Greenburg

Mark Hunter

...

2022

Store Hours, Retail Working Time and Precarious Labour in South Africa, 1960s–1980s

Bridget Kenny

2022/12/19

The return of the labour process: race, skill and technology in South African labour studies

Work in the Global Economy

Bridget Kenny

Edward Webster

2021/10

Trading Time: Retail working time and precarious labour in South Africa, 1960s–1980s

Journal of Labor and Society

Bridget Kenny

2021/4/19

O movimento sindical sul-africano: um terreno fragmentado e instável

Bridget Kenny

2020/5/11

The South African labour movement: A fragmented and shifting terrain

Bridget Kenny

2020/5/11

Servicing “intimate publics”: Johannesburg and Baltimore department stores in the 1960s

Safundi

Bridget Kenny

2020/4/2

To protect white men: job reservation in elevators in South Africa in the 1950s and 1960s

Social History

Bridget Kenny

2020/10/1

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