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A comment on Peter Kilby: industrial relations and wage determination

Recently in this journal, Peter Kilby demonstrated the absence of the institutional prerequisites for the operation of the "Anglo-Saxon model" of industrial relations and wage determination for Nigeria.'One can hardly take issue with this general point, made by numerous writers on the subject in other contexts.2 But Mr. Kilby goes beyond this to reject the "Anglo-Saxon model" as a "failure."Such an assertion has two aspects: (1) definition of the "Anglo-Saxon model" and (2) the sense in which it has failed.Presumably, the "Anglo-Saxon model" is the tradition of voluntary trade union associatio…