Bianca Tame is a Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the University of Cape Town. Previously she worked as a researcher at the Industrial Organisational and Labour Studies Unit at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. Her current research focuses on the commodification of an intimate work culture, the future of work and gender and migration. She co-authored two chapters in Labour beyond Cosatu: Mapping the rupture in South Africa's labour landscape edited by Bezuidenhout, A., & Tshoaedi, M. (2017). The book was shortlisted for the 2019 NIHSS non-fiction awards. Bianca is currently working with a team of scholars from various universities in South Africa on the Taking Democracy Seriously project which has been running since 1994. The project aims to examine workers’ notions and experiences of democracy in the trade union movement as well as at the broader societal level.