Trade Unions and Sustainable Democracy in Africa

✍ Scribed by Gerard Kester, Ousmane Oumarou Sidibe

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 387
• Series: Routledge Revivals
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

First published in 1997, this volume sets out to open a dialogue with the trade union movement and its social partners including civil society, political leaders and the scientific community. The authors, all of whom work closely with APADEP, have drawn on their personal experience and have been guided by a simple, yet flexible, theme: trends in the last few decades in their countries, with the emphasis on transition over the last five years. Part I consists of an overview of sub-Saharan Africa based on selected documentation. Part II is given over to an analysis of the specific situations obtaining in ten African countries in different geographical and language areas. Each case study provides its own democratisation scenario.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
Foreword
Quotation from Long Walk to Freedom
Part I: Trade Unions, Democracy and Development
1 Trade Unions, It’s Your Turn!
2 Trade Unions and the Process of Democratisation
3 Africa in a Period of Adjustment
4 For Participative Democracy
Part II: A Look at Ten African Countries
5 South Africa A Negotiated Transition
6 Benin The Challenge
7 Burkina Faso The Land of Incorruptible Men
8 Cape Verde Concertation
9 Ghana Going Beyond Politics
10 Mali Evolution: an Unlikely Outcome
11 Mozambique Organise or Disappear
12 Sudan What Future?
13 Tanzania A People in Distress
14 Togo The Logic of History
Bibliography
Abbreviations