Trade Unions and the Process of Democratisation

African Trade Unions: An Introduction

“…Trade unions in a number of countries used opposition to SAPs as the basis to widen their critiques of the prevailing order, calling for the re-establishment of freedom of association where it had been curtailed and an end to other authoritarian forms of control (Sidibe and Venturi, 2018). In this way, the labour movement became a "significant opponent of the one-party states that had come to characterize post-colonial Africa" (Webster, 2007: 1).…”