Labour and unions in Asia and Africa: contemporary issues

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Title:	Labour and unions in Asia and Africa: contemporary issues
Editor:	Southall, Roger
Year:	1988
Pages:	258
Language:	English
Series:	International political economy series
City of publisher:	Basingstoke
Publisher:	Macmillan
ISBN:	0333428188; 0333439678
Geographic terms:	Asia Africa
Subjects:	1984 labour trade unions conference papers (form)
Abstract:	The chapters in this book were originally offered to a conference called to examine the impact of changes in the structure of international capitalism upon trade unions in the contemporary Third World. Central to the problem as posed were two key issues. The first was to consider the structural effect upon labour in Third World countries of a widely postulated transition from a 'colonial' to what is now commonly referred to as the 'new' international division of labour; and the second was to discuss the likely role and potential of Third World trade unions in a changing situation widely construed as deleterious to the conditions and defensive capacities of labour globally. Four of the nine papers deal with Africa: Trade unions, the State and labour mobility in ECOWAS, by Tayo Fashoyin; Petroleum proletariat: Nigerian oil workers in contextual and comparative perspective, by J.O. Ihonvbere and T.M. Shaw; The political economy of trade union-State relations in radical and populist regimes in Africa, by J. Kraus; Women, work and collective labour action in Africa, by J.L. Parpart.