Publications

  • Mokomane, Z. & Jaga, A. (In press). COVID-19 and care for the elderly people in Africa: An analysis of South Africa’s mitigation measures. In Armenia, A., Price-Glynn, K., & Duffy, M. (Eds) Confronting the Global Care Crisis during COVID-19: Past Problems, New Issues, and Pathways to Change. Rutgers University Press.

  • Obioma, I. F., Jaga, A., Raina, M., Asekun, W. A., & Hernandez Bark, A. (2022). Gendered share of housework and the COVID-19 pandemic: Examining self-ratings and speculation of others in Germany, India, Nigeria, and South Africa,  Journal of Social Issues https://doi.org/10.1111/josi.12507

  • Mabaso, B., Jaga, A., & Doherty, T. (2022). Family supportive supervision in context: Supporting breastfeeding at work among teachers in South Africa, Community, Work and Family, https://doi.org/10.1080/13668803.2022.2049704 

  • Jaga, A. & Ollier-Malaterre, A. (2022). “You Can’t Eat Soap”: Reimagining Covid-19, Work, Family, and Employment from the Global South. Work, Employment and Society, https://doi.org/10.1177/09500170211069806 

  • Chung, H., Jaga, A., & Lambert, S. (2022). Possibilities for change and new frontiers: Introduction to the work and family researchers network special issue on advancing equality at work and home, Community, Work and Family, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13668803.2022.2008057 

  • Jaga, A. & Guetterman, T. (2021). The value of mixed methods work-family research for human resource management: A review and agenda. International Journal of Human Resource Management, Early online version https://doi.org/10.1080/09585192.2021.1964092 

  • Mabaso, B., Jaga, A., & Doherty, T. (2020). Experiences of workplace breastfeeding in a provincial government setting: a qualitative exploratory study among managers and mothers in South Africa. International Breastfeeding Journal https://doi.org/10.1186/s13006-020-00342-4  

  • Jaga, A. (2020). Something new from the South: Community, work, and family in South Africa. Community, Work and Family, 27(5), 506-515 https://doi.org/10.1080/13668803.2020.1800591 

  • Stumbitz, B. & Jaga, A. (2020). A Southern encounter: Maternal body work practices among low-income mothers in South Africa. Gender, Work & Organization, 27(6), 927-1510 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/gwao.12527 

  • Jaga, A., Arabandi, B., Bagraim, J., & Mdlongwa, S. (2018). Doing the ‘gender dance’: Black women professionals negotiating gender, race, work and family in post-apartheid South Africa. Community, Work & Family, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13668803.2017.1311840

Conferences and Other Presentations

  • Farista, F. & Jaga, A. (2022). Breastfeeding, foodwork, and employment: Theory and insights from black, low-income women in South Africa. Gender, Work, and Organisation, Stream: Stream Feminisms and intersectionalities in/at work, employment and organizations: Articulations, fractures and pluriversal encounters. Hybrid – June 22-25, Bogota, Colombia.
  • Jaga, A. & Stumbitz, B. (2022). I’m their Mother, I’m their Social Worker, I’m their Everything”: Supervisors, Breastfeeding Support at Work and Kinship Care in Low-income Settings in South Africa. Symposium paper presentation: Work-Family for the Greater Good. Symposium organisers and presiders: Ameeta Jaga and Recia Gomez. Work Family Researchers Network Conference, 22-25 June 2022, New York, USA.
  • Ollier-Malaterre et al. (2022). Humane Orientation, Work-family Conflict, and Positive Spillover across Cultures. Work Family Researchers Network Conference, 22-25 June 2022, New York, USA.
  • Mabaso, P. B., Jaga, A. & Doherty, T. (2022) Contextual Model of Family Supportive Supervisor Behaviours on Breastfeeding at Work: A Low-Middle Income Country Perspective. Work Family Researchers Network Conference, 22-25 June 2022, New York, USA.
  • Farista, F. & Jaga, A. (2021). Breastfeeding as a form of foodwork: Considering work-family, race, gender and class. Critical Food Studies Virtual Humanities Conference, 17-19 November, Cape Town.
  • Jaga, A., Stumbitz, B., Doherty, T., Görgens, T. (2021). Listening to low-income women’s voices for work policy reform: Lesson from breastfeeding at work in the South African context. Presented at the IX International Conference of Work and Family, Virtual - July 2019, Barcelona, Spain.
  • Mabaso, B., Jaga, A., & Doherty, T. (2021). Presented at the IX International Conference of Work and Family, Virtual - July 2019, Barcelona, Spain.
  • Jaga, A. & Guetterman, T. (2020). The value of mixed methods work-family research for human resource management: A review and agenda. Work Family Researchers Network Conference – virtual July - September 2020.
  • Stumbitz, B. & Jaga, A. (2020). A Southern encounter: Maternal body work practices among low income mothers in South Africa. Symposium paper presentation: Alternatives to dominant perspectives in work-family research. Symposium organisers and presiders: Ameeta Jaga and Bianca Stumbitz. Work Family Researchers Network Conference – virtual July - September 2020.
  • Jaga, A. & Stumbitz, B. (2019). Moving knowledge from the periphery to the core: Southern theory and breastfeeding at work among low-income women in South Africa. Presented at the VIII International Conference of Work and Family, July 2019, Barcelona, Spain.
  • Jaga, A. & Stumbitz, B. (2019). Moving knowledge from the periphery to the core: Southern theory and breastfeeding at work among low-income women in South Africa. Presented at the VIII International Conference of Work and Family, July 2019, Barcelona, Spain.
  • Botha, G., Jaga, A. & Stumbitz, B. (2019). Supporting breastfeeding at work among low income clothing factory workers in South Africa. Symposium paper presentation:  Working for the Greater Good: Insights into WOP’s contributions to Poverty Reduction. The European Association for Work & Organizational Psychology, Turin, 29 May - 1 June, 2019. 
  • Jaga, A. & Stumbitz, B. (2019). The role of supervisor support for breastfeeding mothers in low pay factory settings: The case of clothing workers in South Africa. Symposium paper presentation:  International Research on Family-Friendly Supports in Diverse Workplace Contexts. 8th Community, Work and Family Conference, Malta, May 23-25 2019.

Students

Master's

  • Botha, G. (2020). Workplace support for breastfeeding in the context of the clothing and textiles industry – a qualitative study
  • Harillal, S. (2020). Coping with work-family conflict: A case of Hindu working mothers in South Africa
  • Petersen, R. (2020). Antecedents of co-workers support for supporting breastfeeding at work (with distinction)
  • Malatjie, K. (2020). Perceptions of community support for breastfeeding among low income clothing factory workers.
  • Ma, Y. (2021). The work-family experiences of production couples in Newcastle South Africa (with distinction)
  • Madyaka, A. (2021). Exploring the role of family on the career development of Xhosa-speaking graduates.
  • Junglee, S. (2021). Exploring supervisors’ perceptions of clothing factory workers breastfeeding at work.
  • Zwelibanzi, T. (2022) The experiences of academics working remotely during the Covid-19 Pandemic in South Africa

PhD

  • Mabaso, Bongekile. (ongoing). Proposing a context-sensitive model of Family  Supportive Supervisor Behaviours for breastfeeding at work from the global South.