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The Development of the Nigerian Labour Movement

The major objective of this work is to analyse the impact of the state and socio-economic structure on the emergence and development of trade unionism in Nigeria. The literature on African urban wage workers portrays them either as a vanguard for the structural transformation of society needed to overcome underdevelopment or as priviledged labour aristocracy. Utilising data on the Nigerian situation both of these views are substantially rejected in this thesis. Essentially l have tried to demonstrate reasoned skepticism regarding the political significance of the Nigerian working class and to …