[3] Wilson was a member of the academic teaching staff in the School of Economics at the University of Cape Town.
[6] He was the founder and director of the Southern African Labour and Development Research Unit (SALDRU).
He was also a visiting professor at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University.
[7] In 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.
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