Title:	Trade Unions and the Coming of Democracy in Africa
Authors:	Jon, Kraus
Keywords:	Democracy in Africa
Issue Date:	2007
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan
Description:	This study was animated by the strikes and demonstrations that broke out all over Africa in 1989–91 and after, as workers and unions overwhelmed the barriers of authoritarian rule and repression to present demands for workers’ rights and democratic political life. Trade unions had done this intermittently in individual African countries from the 1960s to the 1980s. But never had they done so in such numbers, in so many African countries, and with such a dramatic effect on the birth or the rebirth of democracy in public life. It was, observers felt, a genuinely glorious time for Africa, which had been visited with profound economic malaise and depressions in the 1980s as well as burdened with the mean dead hands of authoritarian rulers, the brutal and the less brutal alike. Such authoritarian rule, justified in various tortured ways by actors inside and outside Africa, stifled an incredible vibrancy in African public life by a wide range of social groups, a vibrancy that has existed at many times in countless African countries.
URI:	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/6622
ISBN:	978-0-2306-0061-4
Appears in Collections:	African Studies

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