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{{infobox person | name = Francis Wilson | honorific_prefix = Emeritus Professor | occupation = Economics | education = St. Andrew's College, Grahamstown | alma_mater = | employer = University of Cape Town | parents = {{unbulleted list| Godfrey Wilson | Monica Wilson }} }}Francis Wilson (born 1939) is a South African economist. He is the son of the anthropologists Godfrey Wilson and Monica Wilson. Wilson attended St. Andrew's College, Grahamstown.{{sfn|Poland|2008|p=428}} Wilson was a member of the academic teaching staff in the School of Economics at the University of Cape Town. He founded and was the director of the Southern African Labour and Development Research Unit (SALDRU). Wilson was a visiting professor at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. In 2001 Wilson chaired the International Social Science Council’s Scientific Committee of the International Comparative Research Program on Poverty. Wilson was the Pro-Vice Chancellor of UCT in 2012.[2] Awards and honoursIn 2016 Wilson was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Cape Town for his more than 30 years teaching at UCT’s School of Economics, where he made seminal contributions to unearthing the exploitation of South Africa’s migrant labourers, particularly in the gold mines.[3] Works - {{cite book|last=Wilson|first=Francis |title=Labour in the South African Gold Mines 1911-1969|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8aDiS1OERnkC|year=1972|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-17509-8}}
- {{cite book|last1=Wilson|first1=Francis |last2=Ramphele|first2=Mamphela |authorlink2=Mamphela Ramphele|title=Uprooting poverty: the South African challenge : report for the Second Carnegie Inquiry into Poverty and Development in Southern Africa|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6s9HAAAAYAAJ|year=1989|publisher=David Philip|isbn=978-0-86486-072-9}}
- {{cite book|last1=Wilson|first1=Francis |last2=Kanji|first2=Nazneen |last3=Braathen|first3=Einar |title=Poverty reduction: what role for the state in today's globalized economy?|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WQS4AAAAIAAJ|year=2001|publisher=NAEP|isbn=978-1-85649-953-8}}
- {{cite book|last=Wilson|first=Francis|editor=Charles V. Hamilton|title=Beyond Racism: Race and Inequality in Brazil, South Africa, and the United States|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jW12Ngh1vX8C&pg=PA323|year=2001|publisher=Lynne Rienner Publishers|isbn=978-1-58826-002-4|chapter=Globalization: A View from the South}}
- {{Cite journal| title = Minerals and Migrants: How the Mining Industry Has Shaped South Africa | first= Francis |last=Wilson | journal= Daedalus | date = Winter 2001 | pages=99–121 |jstor=20027681 |volume=130 |issue=1 |publisher=MIT Press on behalf of American Academy of Arts & Sciences }}
- {{cite journal|title=Understanding the Past to Reshape the Future: Problems of South Africa’s Transition|journal=The Economic Future in Historical Perspective|date=2003|first=Francis|last=Wilson}}
- {{cite book|last=Wilson|first=Francis|editor-first=Dominique |editor-last=Peccoud|title=Philosophical and Spiritual Perspectives on Decent Work|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=k4--Jy-qlQEC&pg=PA51|year=2004|publisher=International Labour Organization|isbn=978-92-2-114155-6|chapter=Anglican Reflections from a South African Economist}}
- {{cite book|last1=Wilson|first1=Francis|title=Dinosaurs, Diamonds and Democracy: A Short, Short History of South Africa|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=W007cgAACAAJ|date=15 March 2011|publisher=Umuzi|isbn=978-1415201404}}
References1. ^1 {{Cite web | title = SA could face ‘Arab Spring’ | last = Segar | first = Sue | work = IOL | date = 28 August 2012 | accessdate = 2015-12-30 | url = http://www.iol.co.za/news/politics/sa-could-face-arab-spring-1.1370845 | quote = }} 2. ^1 {{cite web |url=http://www.uct.ac.za/dailynews/?id=9795 |title=‘You’ve been a refuge for the poor’ |accessdate=2016-06-21 |deadurl=bot: unknown |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160621104041/http://www.uct.ac.za/dailynews/?id=9795 |archivedate=June 21, 2016 |df= }}
[1][2] }}- {{cite book |first=Marguerite|last=Poland|title=The Boy in You: A Biography of St. Andrew's College, 1855-2005|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CbYsygAACAAJ|year=2008|publisher=Fernwood Press|isbn=978-1-874950-86-8|authorlink=Marguerite Poland|ref=harv}}
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