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Textile Unions and Industrial Crisis in Nigeria: Labour Structure, Organization and Strategies

By 1980, Nigeria had developed the third largest textile industry in Africa, surpassed only by Egypt and South Africa, with some 100 factories and some 100000 workers, not including vast numbers of small garments firms and crafts producers. The industry faced major difficulties, including fierce competition from smuggled Asian products and a fast receding domestic raw material base. Five years later, by 1985, the industry had lost about 40000 workers and was operating at some 40 per cent of its capacity (Andræ and Beckman, 1984 and 1987).