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The Study of African Trade Unionism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 November 2008

V. L. Allen
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The phenomenon of trade unionism in tropical Africa has only recently become the subject of serious social inquiry. In the main, academic attention has been focused on labour as a commodity rather than as a social movement. Through the activities of the National Institute for Personnel Research in Johannesburg and the Commission for Technical Co-operation in Africa South of the Sahara, labour research interests have been primarily concentrated on productivity, efficiency, labour turnover, selection, control, and training. The volume of such work has been small compared with similar work in western industrialised countries, but it has been large in comparison with that concerning the collective action of African labour.

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The Journal of Modern African Studies , Volume 7 , Issue 2 , July 1969 , pp. 289 - 307
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1969

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Page 290 note 1 Colonial Office returns (London, 1958), for the British territories. The French figures were estimated by the International Labour Office in 1958 for internal use.

Page 291 note 1 Ibid.

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