Trade unions and the new economy: 3 African case studies show how workers are recasting their power in the digital age
FROM US car factories to public sector workers in Nigeria and South Africa, strikes by trade unions continue unabated among the established sectors of the working class. In Detroit in the US, workers are resisting contract employment. In Nigeria, they are angry over the rising cost of living and in South Africa, municipal workers are striking for better wages. EDWARD WEBSTER, Distinguished Reserach Professor, Southern Centre for Inequality Studies, University of the Witwatersrand But it’s becoming increasingly difficult to build sustainable worker organisations as companies employ more people on a casual basis in the digital age. Work has become more…
