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Title:Nigerian labour and the military: towards exclusion?
Author:Fashoyin, TayoISNI
Year:1990
Periodical:Labour, Capital and Society
Volume:23
Issue:1
Pages:12-37
Language:English
Geographic term:Nigeria
Subjects:trade unions
labour law
Abstract:On February 29, 1988, the military administration of General Ibrahim Babangida dissolved the National Executive Council of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and appointed an administrator to run the organization, bringing to a climax a series of corporatist policies that have evolved since the mid-1960s. This paper describes and analyses the various union-government conflicts that led to the government's takeover of the NLC in 1988, and which left Nigerian labour too weak to promote the interests of the working class. The author argues that while the corporatist structure that emerged since the 1960s pretended to promote collaboration among the social partners in the formulation and implementation of social policies, there has not been any explicit interest in the institutional machinery set up to achieve that objective. Corporatist policies have been transformed into the authoritarian variant, particularly in the 1980s, during which labour became the focus of repressive policies induced largely by external economic pressures on the military government. The result is a tendency to exclude labour in the formulation of social and economic policies. Notes, ref., sum. in French.
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