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African Studies Review | 2013

Lagos tailors, trade unions, and organizations in the informal economy

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

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

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

The Wheat Trap: Bread and Underdevelopment in Nigeria

Uzo M. Igbozurike; Gunilla Andrae; Björn Beckman


The wheat trap: bread and underdevelopment in Nigeria. | 1985

The wheat trap: bread and underdevelopment in Nigeria.

Gunilla Andrae; Björn Beckman


Verfassung in Recht und Übersee | 1988

Industry goes farming : the Nigerian raw material crisis and the case of textiles and cotton

Gunilla Andrae; Björn Beckman


Archive | 1998

Union power in the Nigerian textile industry : labour regime and adjustment

Gunilla Andrae; Björn Beckman


Economic Geography | 1986

Geographers among the Peasants: Power, Politics, and Practice@@@The Wheat Trap: Bread and Underdevelopment in Nigeria@@@Contradictions of Accumulation in Africa@@@Indigenous Agricultural Revolution: Ecology and Food Production in West Africa

Michael Watts; Gunilla Andrae; Björn Beckman; Henry Bernstein; Bonnie Campbell; Paul Richards


Labour, capital and society | 2011

Trade unions, tailors, and civil society

Gunilla Andrae; Björn Beckman


Archive | 2010

Union power and the formal -informal divide

Björn Beckman; Gunilla Andrae


Journal of Modern African Studies | 2015

Women and the Informal Economy in Urban Africa: From the Margins to the Centre by Mary Njeri Kinyanjui London: Nordic Africa Institute and Zed Books, 2014. Pp. 256. £21·99 (pbk)

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University of California

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Université du Québec à Montréal

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