Gunilla Andrae
Stockholm University
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African Studies Review | 2013
Gunilla Andrae; Björn Beckman
Abstract: In January 2012 a broad spectrum of popular groups staged an unprecedented protest against the removal of what has been termed a “subsidy” on fuel prices by the Nigerian government. The participation of tailors in this national political event suggests that self-employed artisans were prepared to transcend their narrow nonpolitical agenda to promote their interests and demands for decent social and economic conditions. Interviews with participating organization representatives in Lagos indicate the supportive role of alliances with labor unions and organized informal workers at large. We see current global developments in the textile industry as conducive to this outcome. Résumé: Cet article examine l’étendue de l’influence des associations de tailleurs sur les lois nationales régissant les problèmes concernant le bien-être de leurs membres, établie par leur alliance au sein d’une organisation parapluie les regroupant avec des travailleurs industriels et des producteurs de l’économie informelle. Le contexte immédiat de cette étude de cas est la révolte urbaine de janvier 2012 au Nigéria à la suite de la suppression de la subvention pour le pétrole. La mise au point concerne les tailleurs dans la ville de Lagos. Des entrevues avec plusieurs organisations de tailleurs offrent des aperçus utiles sur la configuration des relations formelles et informelles dans l’effort d’organisation des producteurs de textiles, alors que la compétition internationale fait pression sur ce qui fut par le passé une organisation syndicale forte, et que la mobilisation internationale soutient la syndicalisation des producteurs informels pour défendre leurs intérêts.
Archive | 1991
Gunilla Andrae; Björn Beckman
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 (Andrae and Beckman, 1984 and 1987).
Africa | 1987
Uzo M. Igbozurike; Gunilla Andrae; Björn Beckman
The wheat trap: bread and underdevelopment in Nigeria. | 1985
Gunilla Andrae; Björn Beckman
Verfassung in Recht und Übersee | 1988
Gunilla Andrae; Björn Beckman
Archive | 1998
Gunilla Andrae; Björn Beckman
Economic Geography | 1986
Michael Watts; Gunilla Andrae; Björn Beckman; Henry Bernstein; Bonnie Campbell; Paul Richards
Labour, capital and society | 2011
Gunilla Andrae; Björn Beckman
Archive | 2010
Björn Beckman; Gunilla Andrae
Journal of Modern African Studies | 2015
Gunilla Andrae