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Labour and Unions in Asia and Africa

Contemporary Issues

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  • © 1988

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Editors:
  1. Roger Southall

    1. University of Leicester, UK

Part of the book series: International Political Economy Series (IPES)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction

    • Roger Southall
    Pages 1-31

  3. World Unemployment and China’s Labour Reserves

    • Michel Chossudovsky
    Pages 32-48

  4. Trade Unions, the State and Labour Mobility in ECOWAS

    • Tayo Fashoyin
    Pages 49-79

  5. Petroleum Proletariat: Nigerian Oil Workers in Contextual and Comparative Perspective

    • Julius O. Ihonvbere, Timothy M. Shaw
    Pages 80-108

  6. The Structure of the Indian Working Class and Conventional Unionism

    • Jaganath Pathy
    Pages 109-135

  7. Between Capital and Labour: Trade Unionism in Malaysia

    • Leslie O’Brien
    Pages 136-170

  8. The Political Economy of Trade Union-State Relations in Radical and Populist Regimes in Africa

    • Jon Kraus
    Pages 171-210

  9. Unions, State and Capital in Western India: Structural Determinants of the 1982 Bombay Textile Strike

    • Debashish Bhattacherjee
    Pages 211-237

  10. Women, Work and Collective Labour Action in Africa

    • Jane L. Parpart
    Pages 238-255

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 256-258
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  • University of Leicester, UK

    Roger Southall

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