African Labor Relations and Workers' Rights Assessing the Role of the International Labor Organization

Subjects:

• Economics » Labor Relations
• Economics » Developmental Economics
• Multicultural Studies » African Studies

Reviews:

• This book definitely will contribute to the debates on the role of Africans themselves and international agencies in the quest for development and human rights in the twenty-first century.
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  Bimonthly Review of Law Books
• This book is important as one of the first efforts to evaluate the effectiveness of the ILO in enforcing, through the limited means at its disposal, compliance with international labor standards. Panford usefully lays out the institutional constraints facing the ILO, and he discusses the experience of Ghana in detail.
  —Industrial and Labor Relations Review
• At a time when the question of democratization has become a critical issue in Africa's quest for modernity, when the right of citizens and others hitherto marginalized have become a popular subject of scholarly inquiry, a book on workers' rights in Africa is more than timely. This is a pioneering attempt in the relatively unexplored field of working people's right in contemporary Africa....a useful addition to the literature on post-colonial Africa.
  —Labor History

Table of Contents:

• Foreword by W.R. Simpson
• Preface
• Abbreviations
• Chronology of Relevant Events
• Introduction
• African Labor Relations in the Context of International Workers' Rights: The Setting (Background Information on Ghana and the ILO)
• African Labor Laws, Policies, Practices, and Problems at the ILO
• Why African Governments Have Difficulties Implementing ILO Standards
• The Influence of the ILO on African Workers' Rights and Labor Relations
• Sound Labor Policies towards Sustainable Development in Africa
• Appendix 1: Texts of Articles 19 and 22 of the ILO's 1988 Constitution
• Appendix 2: Texts of ILO Convention No. 87 and Report Form
• Appendix 3: Texts of ILO Convention No. 98 and Report Form
• Appendix 4: Ghana Labor Department Questionnaire
• Appendix 5: Ghana TUC Questionnaire
• Appendix 6: Map of Ghana: The Geopolitical Context of Labor Relations
• Appendix 7: 22 English-speaking African ILO Member States
• Appendix 8: The 17 Ghana TUC Affiliates from January 1966 to the Present
• Bibliography
• Index