Employee Relations: Volume 30 Issue 4

Introduction: employment relations in Africa

Geoffrey Wood

This introduction aims to review the present state of research on employment relations in Africa, and provide an overview of subsequent papers.

Organising on the periphery: new sources of power in the South African workplace

Karl von Holdt, Edward Webster

Is labour's decline permanent, or is it merely a temporary weakening, as Beverley Silver suggests in her recent book, as the labour movement is unmade and remade in different…

Industrial relations in Namibia since independence: Between neo‐liberalism and neo‐corporatism?

Gilton Klerck

The paper seeks to examine the changes and continuities in industrial relations in post‐independence Namibia. In particular, it aims to explore some of the key elements in the…

The Nigerian informal economy: Instigating decent work and pay, and national development through unionisation

Sola Fajana

This paper aims to address the issue of unionisation of the largely non‐unionised informal economic activities as a strategy for achieving decent work and pay as well as promoting…

Employment relations in Zambia

Tayo Fashoyin

The paper aims to explore the impact of economic transformation on employment relations and the effect on the role and behaviour of unions and employers' organizations in Zambia.

Employee relations in Algeria: a historical appraisal

Mohamed Branine, Ahmed Foudil Fekkar, Otmane Fekkar, Kamel Mellahi

The paper seeks to examine the evolution of, and assesses current trajectories of change in, the Algerian employee relations system.

The making of a foreign “labour aristocracy” in Botswana

Monageng Mogalakwe

The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether expatriate workers in Botswana are a labour aristocracy.

Union power and new managerial strategies: the case of South Africa

Geoffrey Wood, Keith Glaister

This study aims to assess the relationship between unionization and employee collectivism, and managerial strategies for employee participation and involvement, within an emerging…

Textiles and employee relations in Swaziland

Xolani Simelane

This article aims to report on the state of employee relations in the Swazi textile industry, based on case study evidence. It focuses on workplace dynamics, employment relations…