Böcker av Bjorn Beckman

This collection of essays investigates how structural adjustment and economic liberalisation have impacted upon labour regimes - e.g., trade unions; and upon state and civil society relations, and processes of democratisation. The studies resulted from a conference hosted by the Institute of Development Studies, University of Zimbabwe, in co-operation with the Department of Political Science, University of Stockholm. Cases and responses of the seven African countries in attendance - Egypt, Ghana, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe - are documented. Examples include: liberalisation and the case of Senegalese industrial relations; trade unions and capacity building in the Nigerian textile industry; the labour exodus in a liberalising South Africa; and authoritarianism and trade unions in Egypt.

Nigeria has been caught in a spiral of economic and political decay. This book highlights the progress which has been achieved, in industrial adjustment, institution building and conflict regulation. It follows Nigeria's leading manufacturing sector, the textile industry, from the heyday of the oil boom through adjustment and liberalization.