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Title:Trade Union Responses to the 'Flexible' Workforce in Namibia: Incorporation or Marginalisation?
Author:Klerck, GiltonISNI
Year:2002
Periodical:African Sociological Review (ISSN 1027-4332)
Volume:6
Issue:2
Pages:98-129
Language:English
Notes:biblio. refs.
Geographic terms:Namibia
Southern Africa
Subjects:working conditions
employment
trade unions
Labor and Employment
Economics, Commerce
Workers' organizations
Labor market
External link:https://www.jstor.org/stable/24487328
Abstract:The first decade of Namibian independence was characterized by both a strengthening of the legal and social safety net covering full-time, organized employees and a proliferation of 'flexible' labour at the margins of this regulatory framework. If the trade unions in Namibia are to expand their influence and consolidate their gains, they must find an effective strategy to confront the casualization of work. Such a strategy is premised as much on the strategic resources of the labour movement as it is on an adequate conception of the labour market processes that generate the supply of and demand for 'flexible' labour. However, the present organizational and ideological framework of the Namibian labour movement inhibits its capacity to mount an effective campaign against the spread of unstable and poorly-regulated employment and provide an effective response to the plight of non-standard employees. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. [ASC Leiden abstract]
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