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| Title: | The Labour Market and Trade Unions at the South African Periphery: Lesotho and Transkei |
| Author: | Southall, Roger J. |
| Year: | 1994 |
| Periodical: | African Affairs: The Journal of the Royal African Society |
| Volume: | 93 |
| Issue: | 373 |
| Period: | October |
| Pages: | 565-586 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic terms: | Transkei South Africa Lesotho |
| Subjects: | employment trade unions Labor and Employment Economics and Trade Ethnic and Race Relations |
| External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/723667 |
| Abstract: | This article begins by proposing that the informal political constraints imposed by the demands of the antiapartheid struggle upon explicit comparison of the independent country of Lesotho with the pseudo-independent bantustan of Transkei should now be abandoned in favour of a focus which elaborates the common crisis they are facing as labour reserve political economies. Furthermore, it suggests that the point of departure for such an exercise should be an analysis of the militant, labour-based protest which has rocked both territories since the late 1980s. The article addresses four main issues. First, it considers the long-term, intractable decline of the labour markets of both countries; second, it examines the reasons for their governments' similar responses to labour militance; third, it addresses the limits and possibilities of trade unionism in conditions of labour surplus; and fourth, it discusses the impact which a recent return to civilian rule in Lesotho, and the contemporary reintegration of Transkei into a formally democratic South Africa, may have upon labour relations at the periphery. Notes, ref. |
