Trade Unions & Party Politics Labour Movements in Africa

by Beckman, Björn; Buhlungu, Sakhela; Sachikonye, Lloyd

• ISBN13: 9780796923066
• ISBN10: 079692306X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-06-01
• Publisher: HSRC Press

Summary

In Much of Africa, People look to trade unions for Leadership, especially at times of economic downturn. Although Africa's wage-workers-are relatively few in comparison to those in the informal economy, their experience of Organisation and mass mobilisation and their position in the modern economy give them a strategic role in the politics of democratisation and development.

Author Biography

Björn Beckman is a professor of political science at Stockholm University. He is the coeditor of Labour Regimes and Liberalization and Union Power in the Nigerian Textile Industry. Sakhela Buhlungu is a professor of sociology at the University of Johannesburg and the editor of Trade Unions and Democracy. Lloyd Sachikonye is a professor in the department of agrarian and labor studies at the University of Zimbabwe. He is the author of Democracy, Civil Society and The State and Restructuring or De-Industrialising?

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vi
Acronyms and abbreviations	p. ix
Introduction: Trade unions and party politics in Africa	p. 1
Autonomy or political affiliation? Senegalese trade unions in the face of economic and political reforms	p. 23
Disengagement from party politics: Achievements and challenges for the Ghana Trades Union Congress	p. 39
The failure of Nigeria's Labour Party	p. 59
Trade unions, liberalisation and politics in Uganda	p. 85
The labour movement and democratisation in Zimbabwe	p. 109
Unions and parties in South Africa: Cosatu and the ANC in the wake of Polokwane	p. 131
Serving workers or serving the party? Trade unions and politics in Namibia	p. 167
Trade unions and the politics of national liberation in Africa: An appraisal	p. 191
Contributors	p. 207
Index	p. 208
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