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- Title
Introduction: Évaluer l'action politique des syndicats en Asie, en Afrique et en Amérique latine à l'aube du 21<sup>e</sup> siècle.
- Authors
Pillay, Devan; Van der Walt, Lucien
- Abstract
This special edition, which draws together studies of workers' struggles in Bangladesh, Brazil, China, Ecuador, India, Indonesia and South Africa, provides the basis for an assessment of the politics of organized labour at the start of the 21st century. The papers in this collection are drawn from a highly successful September 2011 Global Labour University conference on "The Politics of Labour and Development", held in Johannesburg, South Africa. On the basis of the studies, we argue for the importance of unions, despite their contradictions, as an irreplaceable force for progressive social change for the popular classes. Post-colonial ruling classes have been active authors of the neoliberal agenda, at the expense of the working class. The current context affirms the centrality of unions, and of organized workers more generally as it is union struggles - and alliances with other sectors of the popular classes - that make the Standard Employment Relationship possible. The more the fracturing of the popular classes is challenged by linking unions to other popular class forces, the more successful such struggles become.
- Subjects
LABOR market; LABOR unions; LABOR conventions; SOCIAL change; WORKING class
- Publication
Labour, Capital & Society / Travail, capital et société, 2011, Vol 44, Issue 2, p2
- ISSN
0706-1706
- Publication type
Article