This list will enable students and practitioners to find relevant resources on issues concerning employment law and industrial relations.  It is a work in process and will be updated from time to time as and when new books are published.

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Law in the workplace generally

Barker FS & Holtzhausen South African Labour Glossary (Kenwyn: Juta & Co, 1996)

Basson AC et al Essential labour law 5th edn (Labour Law Publications, 2009).

Brassey M Employment and Labour Law Vol 1: Employment law (Cape Town: Juta, 1998).

Brassey M Employment and Labour Law Vol 3: Commentary on the Labour Relations Act (Cape Town: Juta, 2006).

Brassey M, Cameron E, Cheadle H and Olivier MP The New Labour Law: Strikes, Dismissals and the Unfair Labour Practice in South African Law (Cape Town: Juta, 1987).

Du Plessis JV et al A practical guide to labour law 6th edn (Durban: LexisNexis, 2006).

Cameron E, Cheadle H & Thompson C  The New Labour Relations Act (Kenwyn: Juta, 1989)

Chaskalson, Woolman, Roux, Bishop, Klaaren & Steyn Constitutional Law of South Africa (Lansdowne: Juta & Co, 2007)

Cheadle, Davis & Haysom South African Constitutional Law: The Bill of Rights (Durban: LexisNexis Butterworths, 2006)

Collier Debbie et al Labour Law in South Africa: Context and Principles (OUP, 2021)

Du Toit D et al Labour Law Through the Cases (Durban: LexisNexis, 2024 updated loose-leaf).

Du Toit D et al Labour Relations Law: A comprehensive guide 7th edn (Durban: LexisNexis, 2023)

Garbers C et al The Essential Labour Law Handbook (Mace, 8th ed 2024)

Grogan J Dismissal 2nd edn (Cape Town: Juta, 2014).

Grogan J Employment Rights (Cape Town: Juta, 2010).

Grogan J Workplace Law 11th edn (Cape Town: Juta, 2014).

Joubert W (ed) The Law of South Africa (Durban: Butterworths, 1982).

Landis H and Folster J Employment and the Law: Standard Operating Procedures and Policies (Cape Town: Juta, 2014).

Landis H and Grossett L Employment and the Law: A Practical Guide for the Workplace 3rd edn (Cape Town: Juta, 2014).

Le Roux PAK and Van Niekerk A The South African Law of Unfair Dismissal 2nd edn (Cape Town: Juta, 2004).

Levy A Labour law in practice: a guide for South African employers (Bookstorm, 2010)

Norman-Scoble C Law of Master and Servant in South Africa (Durban: Butterworths,1956).

Opperman M  Misconduct & Incapacity: Preparing for the Hearing (Cape Town: Juta, 2014)

Poolman T Principles of Unfair Labour Practice (Cape Town: Juta, 1985).

Potgieter M Social Media and Employment Law (Cape Town:. Juta, 2014).

Rycroft A and Jordaan B A Guide to South African Labour Law 2nd edn (Cape Town: Juta, 1992).

Rycroft A and Le Roux R  (eds) Reinventing Labour Law: Reflecting on the first 15 years of the Labour Relations Act and future challenges (Cape Town: Juta, 2012).

Thompson C and Benjamin PS South African Labour Law (Cape Town: Juta, loose-leaf, 1994 -).

Todd C, Du Toit D & Bosch C  Business Transfers and Employment Rights in South Africa (Durban: LexisNexis Butterworths, 2004)

Trollip AT and Gon SC Power Law and Procedure: A Contemporary Guide to Industrial Relations (Durban: Butterworths, 1992).

Van Eck BPS and Van Jaarsveld SR Principles of Labour Law 3rd edn (Durban: Butterworths, 2002).

Van Jaarsveld SR, Fourie JD and Olivier MP Principles and Practice of Labour Law (Durban: Butterworths, Loose-leaf, 2001-).

Van Niekerk A (ed) Law at Work  2nd edn (Durban: LexisNexis, 2012).

Van Niekerk A Unfair Dismissal  4th edn (Cape Town: Siber Ink, 2008).

Vettori S The Employment Contract and the Changed World of Work (Gower, 2007).

Wallis MJD Labour and Employment Law (Durban: LexisNexis, 1992-1995).

Law in the workplace – discrimination and social security

Du Toit D and Potgieter M Unfair Discrimination in the Workplace (Cape Town: Juta, 2014).

Dupper OC et al Essential Employment Discrimination Law (Cape Town: Juta, 2004).

Dupper OC and Garbers C (eds) Equality in the Workplace: Reflections from South Africa and Beyond (Cape Town: Juta, 2010).

Grogan J  Dismissal, discrimination and unfair labour practices (Cape Town: Juta, 2007).

Olivier MP, Okpaluba MC, Smit N and Thompson M  Social Security Law: General Principles (Durban: Butterworths, 1999).

Pretorius, Klinck, Ngwenya  Employment Equity Law (Durban: LexisNexis, 2012

Rycroft A and Le Roux R Harassment in the Workplace: Law, Policies and Processes (Durban: LexisNexis, 2010).

Strydom EML (ed) Essential Social Security Law 2nd edn (Cape Town: Juta, 2006).

Law in the workplace – collective bargaining and trade unions

Anstey M, Grogan J and Ngcukaitobi T (ed) Collective Bargaining in the Workplace (Cape Town: Juta, 2010).

Godfrey S, Maree J, Du Toit D and Theron J Collective Bargaining in South Africa: Past, Present and Future? (Juta, 2010).

Grogan J Collective Labour Law 2nd edn (Cape Town: Juta, 2014).

Hayter S The role of collective bargaining in the global economy: negotiating for social justice (Edward Elgar, 2010).

Rycroft A, Cohen T and Whitcher B Trade Unions Law and the Law in South Africa (Durban: LexisNexis, 2009).

Visser J Trends in unionisation and collective bargaining (International Labour Office, 2000).

Relations in the workplace

Albertyn Chris and McCann R  Alcohol, Employment and Fair Labour Practice (Cape Town: Juta, 1993) – see new edition by McCann.

Anstey M (ed) Employee Participation and Workplace Forums (Cape Town: Juta, 1997).

Anstey M (ed) Worker Participation (Cape Town: Juta, 1990).

Anstey M Managing Change 3rd edn (Cape Town: Juuta 2006).

Bendix, S Industrial Relations: A Southern African Perspective 6th edn (Cape Town: Juta, 2015).

Bendix, S Labour relations in practice (Juta, 2010).

Finnemore M and Joubert Introduction to industrial relations in South Africa 11th edn (LexisNexis, 2013).

Malherbe Kitty & Julia Sloth-Nielsen Labour Law into the Future: essays in honour of D’Arcy du Toit (Juta 2012)

McCann R et al Alcohol, Drugs and Employment 2nd edn (Cape Town: Juta, 2011).

Nel PS (ed) South African Industrial Relations: Theory and Practice 3rd rev edn (Pretoria: Van Schaik, 1999).

Pons A and Deale P The Labour Relations Handbook – A Practical Guide on Effective Relations, Policies, Procedures and Practices for South African Managers (Cape Town: Juta, 1989 onwards).

Rossouw JP Labour relations in education: a South African perspective (Van Schaik, 2010).

Swanepoel BJ, Erasmus BJ and Schenk HW South African Human Resource Management: Theory and Practice (Cape Town: Juta, 2014).

Van Rensburg, R. (ed) Deelname en vooruitgang: Arbeidsverhoudinge in Suid-Afrika (Participation and Progress: Labour Relations in South Africa). (Durban: Butterworths, 1998).

Venter R et al Labour relations in South Africa 4th edn (Oxford University Press, 2009).

Dispute resolution – mediation, arbitration and adjudication

Benjamin PS and Gruen C The Regulatory Efficiency of the CCMA: A Statistical Analysis (2005).

Bosch D, Molahlehi E and Everett W The Conciliation and Arbitration Handbook: A Comprehensive Guide to Labour Dispute Resolution Procedures (Durban: LexisNexis Butterworths, 2004).

Boulle L and Rycroft A Mediation: Principles, process, practice 2nd edn (Durban: Butterworths, 2005).

Brand JWD, Lotter C, Steadman FJ and Ngcukaitobi T Labour Dispute Resolution (Cape Town: Juta, 2008).

Brand JWD et al Labour dispute resolution 2nd edn (Cape Town: Juta, 2008).

Brand JWD, Steadman F and Todd C Commercial Mediation: A User’s Guide (Cape Town: Juta, 2012)

Buhlungu S et al The dispute resolution digest 2001 (Cape Town: Juta, 2012).

Butler D and Finsen E Arbitration in South Africa: Law and Practice (Cape Town: Juta, 1993).

Cheadle Halton et al Strikes and the Law (LexisNexis: 2017)

Godfrey S Industrial Council Digest (University of Cape Town, 1992).

Grogan J Labour Litigation and Dispute Resolution (Cape Town: Juta, 2010).

Landman AA and Van Niekerk A Practice in the Labour Courts: Practice and procedure in the Labour Court and Labour Appeal Court of South Africa (Cape Town: Juta, 1998).

Myburgh A & C Bosch Reviews in the Labour Courts (LexisNexis 2016)

Pretorius P (ed) Dispute Resolution (Cape Town: Juta, 1993).

Ramsden P  The Law of Arbitration (Cape Town: Juta, 2009)

Theron J and Godfrey S ‘The CCMA and small business: The impact of the labour dispute resolution system’ (Institute of Development and Labour Law, University of Cape Town 2001).

Constitutional and international issues

Barak, Aharon   Proportionality.  Constitutional Rights and their Limitations.  Cambridge University Press, 2012.  Pp.  611.  $64.99.  ISBN: 9781107401198.

Basson D South Africa’s Interim Constitution – Text and Notes 2nd edn (Cape Town: Juta,1995).

Bench Book for Equality Courts (Judicial Services Commission, 2002).

Bill of Rights compendium. – (Durban: Butterworths, loose-leaf 1996-).

Cachalia F et al Fundamental Rights in the New Constitution (Cape Town: Juta, 1994).

Chaskalson M et al Constitutional Law of South Africa 2nd edn (Cape Town: Juta, 2004-2008).

Cheadle H et al South African Constitutional Law: The Bill of Rights (Durban: Butterworths, 2002).

Currie I and De Waal J The Bill of Rights Handbook 6th edn (Cape Town: Juta, 2013).

Davis D, Cheadle H and Haysom N (eds) Fundamental Rights in the Constitution: Commentary and cases (Cape Town: Juta, 1997).

De Ville J Constitutional and statutory interpretation (Cape Town: Interdoc Consultants, 2000).

Du Plessis L and Corder H Understanding South Africa’s Transitional Bill of Rights (Cape Town: Juta, 1994).

Du Plessis M and Pete S (eds) Constitutional Democracy in South Africa 1994–2004 (Durban: LexisNexis, 2004).

Dugard J International Law: A South African Perspective 4th edn (Cape Town: Juta, 2011).

Meyerson D Rights Limited: Freedom of Expression, Religion and the South African Constitution (Cape Town:. Juta 1997).

General principles of law

Baxter L Administrative Law (Cape Town: Juta, 1994).

Christie RH The Law of Contract in South Africa 6th edn (Durban: Butterworths, 2011).

Cilliers HS and Benade ML  Corporate Law 3rd edn (Durban: Butterworths, 2000).

Cilliers HS et al Entrepreneurial Law (Durban: Butterworths, 1993).

Claassen’s Dictionary of Legal Words and Phrases 2nd edn (Durban: LexisNexis Butterworths, 1997).

Delport PA, Vorster Q Henochsberg on the Companies Act 71 of 2008 (Durban: LexisNexis, 2011-).

Devenish GE Interpretation of Statutes (Cape Town: Juta, 1992).

Du Bois F (ed) Wille’s Principles of South African Law 9th edn (Cape Town: Juta, 2007).

Hoexter C Administrative Law in South Africa 2nd edn (Cape Town: Juta, 2012)

Hutchinson D and Pretorius C-J (eds) The Law of Contract in South Africa 2nd edn (OUP Southern Africa, 2012).

Kellaway E Principles of Legal Interpretation: Statutes Contracts and Wills (Durban: Butterworths, 1995).

Le Roux R, Orleyn T and Rycroft A Sexual Harassment in the Workplace: Law, Policies and Processes (Durban: LexisNexis Butterworths, 2005).

Levy A and Piron J The Complete Guide to the Basic Conditions of Employment Act (Andrew Levy and Associates ,2004).

Loubser MM Extinctive Prescription (Cape Town:. Juta, 1996).

Meskin PM (ed) Henochsberg on the Companies Act Vol 1 4th edn (Durban: Butterworths, 1985).

Meskin PM Insolvency Law and its operation in winding-up (Durban: Butterworths, 1990).

National Manpower Commission The Influence of Relevant Labour Legislation on the Small Business Sector (July 1991).

Ntsika Enterprise Promotion Agency Basic Conditions of Employment Act – Impact Assessment (1998).

Olivier MP, Smit N and Kalula ER  Social Security: A Legal Analysis (Durban: LexisNexis Butterworths, 2003).

Olivier MP, Dupper OC and Govindjee A The Role of Standards in Labour and Social Security Law (Cape Town: Juta, 2013).

Sharrock, R Business Transactions Law  8th edn (Cape Town: Juta, 2011).

Todd C and Laubscher T Contracts of employment (Siber Ink, 2008).

Todd C, Du Toit D and Bosch C Business Transfers and Employment Rights in South Africa (Durban: LexisNexis Butterworths, 2004).

Van der Merwe SW et al Contract: General Principles 4th edn (Cape Town Juta, 2012).

Van Winsen L. de V, Cilliers AC and Loots C, edited by Dendy M, Herbstein and Van Winsen — The Civil Practice of the Supreme Court of South Africa (now The High Courts and the Supreme Court of Appeal) 4th edn (Cape Town: Juta, 1997).

Visser C, Pretorius JT, Sharrock R and Mischke C Gibson’s South African Mercantile and Company Law 7th edn (Cape Town: Juta, 1997).

General background and issues

Abedian I and Standish B (eds) Economic Growth in South Africa: Selected Policy Issues (Cape Town: Oxford University Press, 1992).

Barker F ?The South African labour market: theory and practice (Van Schaik, 2007).

Baskin J Striking Back: A History of Cosatu (Johannesburg: Ravan Press, 1991).

Beckman B Trade unions and party politics: labour movements in Africa (HSRC Press, 2010).

Bezuidenhout MC Managing for healthy labour relations: a practical guide  for health services in Southern Africa (Van Schaik, 2007).

Bhorat H and Cheadle H Labour reform in South Africa: measuring regulation and a synthesis of policy suggestion (DPRU UCT, 2009).

Bhorat H and van der Westesthuizen C A synthesis of current issues in the labour regulatory environment (DPRU UCT, 2009).

Bieler A et al Labour and the challenges of globalization: what prospects for international solidarity (UKZN Press, 2008).

Bosch D and Hirschfeld E !Ae!Hai Kalahari Heritage Park Bundle (Pretoria: Commission for Restitution of Land Rights, 2002).

Bosch D Arbeidsreg en die boer: ’n Volledige handleiding oor die regte van boer en plaaswerker (Cape Town: Tafleberg, 1994).

Cheadle H, Le Roux PAK, Thompson C and Van Niekerk A Current Labour Law 1993 (Cape Town: Juta, 1993).

Cheadle H, Le Roux PAK, Thompson C and Van Niekerk A Current Labour Law 1994 (Cape Town: Juta, 1994).

Cheadle H, Le Roux PAK, Thompson C and Van Niekerk A Current Labour Law 1995 (Cape Town: Juta, 1995).

Cheadle H, Le Roux PAK, Thompson C and Van Niekerk A Current Labour Law 1996 (Cape Town: Juta, 1996).

Cheadle H, Le Roux PAK, Thompson C and Van Niekerk A Current Labour Law 1997 (Cape Town: Juta, 1994).

Cheadle H, Le Roux PAK, Thompson C and Van Niekerk A Current Labour Law 2001 (Durban: LexisNexis Butterworths, 2001).

Cheadle H, Le Roux PAK, Thompson C and Van Niekerk A Current Labour Law 2004 (Durban: LexisNexis Butterworths, 2004).

Du Toit D (ed) Exploited, undervalued – and essential: Domestic workers and the realisation of their rights’ (Pretoria University Law Press, 2013).

Du Toit D et al Protecting Workers or Stifling Enterprise? Industrial Councils and Small Business (Durban: Butterworths, 1995).

Elsley T Bargaining indicators 2009: a collective bargaining omnibus (Labour Research Service, 2009).

Friedman S Building Tomorrow Today: African Workers in Trade Unions 1970–1985 (Johannesburg: Ravan Press, 1987).

Gelb S (ed) South Africa’s Economic Crisis (Cape Town: David Philip, 1991).

Gitsham, Ernest and Trembath JF A first account of Labour Organisation in South Africa (Durban, 1926).

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Godsell B et al McGregor’s Economic Alternatives: Thoughts on Possible Economic Alternatives for a New South Africa (Cape Town: Juta, 1990).

Horrell M Laws Affecting Race Relations in South Africa 1948–1976 (Johannesburg: SA Institute of Race Relations, 1978).

Howe G and Le Roux P (eds) Transforming the Economy: Policy Options for South Africa (Indicator Project South Africa, University of Natal: Institute for Social Development, UWC, 1992).

Innes, D The Innes Labour Brief (1994).

Kalula E and Woolfrey D (eds) The new labour market: Reconstruction, development and equality (Labour Law Unit: University of Cape Town; Centre for Socio-legal Studies, University of Natal; and the Centre for Applied Legal Studies: University of the Witwatersrand, 1995.

Kester G Towards Effective Worker Participation in South Africa (The African Workers’ Participation Development Programme, 1995).

Kraak G Breaking the Chains: Labour in South Africa in the 1970s and 1980s (London: Pluto Press, 1993).

Krikler, J The Rand Revolt: The 1922 Insurrection and Racial Killing in South Africa (Johannesburg and Cape Town: Jonathan Ball Publishers, 2005).

The Rand Revolt

Le Roux Rochelle Retrenchment Law in South Africa (LexisNexis 2016)

Malherbe K and Sloth-Nielsen J (eds) Labour Law into the Future: Essays in honour of D’Arcy du Toit (Cape Town: Juta, 2012).

Maller J Conflict and Co-operation: Case studies in worker participation (Johannesburg: Ravan Press, 1992).

Markey R and Monat J (eds) Innovation and Employee Participation Through Works Councils (Ashgate, 1997).

Michie J and Padayachee V (eds) The Political Economy of South Africa’s Transition: The Policy P888erspectives in the Late 1990s (London: The Dryden Press, 1997).

Moll P, Nattrass N and Loots L  (eds) Redistribution: How can it work in South Africa? (David Philip, 1991).

Moss G and Obery I (eds) South African Review 6: From ‘Red Friday’ to CODESA (Ravan, 1992).

NALEDI Opinions on the new Labour Relations Bill  (May 1995).

Olivier MP and Kalula ER (Eds) Social Protection in SADC: Developing an Integrated and Inclusive Framework (CICLASS and UCT, 2004).

Patel E (ed) Engine of Development? South Africa’s National Economic Forum (Cape Town: Juta, 1993).

Psychometric Committee of the Professional Board for Psychology and the Interim Medical and Dental Council of South Africa Policy on the Classification of Psychometric Measuring Devices, Instruments, Methods and Techniques (September 1998).

Roskam A An exploratory look into labour market regulation (DPRU UCT, 2007).

Schrire R (ed) Wealth or Poverty? Critical Choices for South Africa (Cape Town: Oxford University Press, 1992).

Simons HJ and Simons RE Class and Colour in South Africa, 1850-1950 (Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1969).

Standing G, Sender J and Weeks J Restructuring the labour market: The South African challenge (Cape Town, Government Printers and Geneva, ILO, 1996).

Sykes JB The Concise Oxford dictionary of current English : based on the Oxford English dictionary and its supplements (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982).

Visser DP (ed) Essays on the History of Law (Juta, 1989).

Webster E (ed) Essays in South African Labour History (Johannesburg: Ravan Press, 1978).

Wiehahn, NE The Complete Wiehahn Report with notes by Prof NE Wiehahn (Johannesburg and Cape Town: Lex Patria, 1982).