| | This issue of the Review is focused largely on labour and trade unionism in West and South Africa. As in the bargaining situation facing organised labour elsewhere in the capitalist West, the best cards seem to he held by the employers. The recession beginning in the mid-seventies has created adverse labour market conditions for workers in many countries, but more potently at the level of ideology, has created a whole rash of new management doctrines - phrased in terms of 'rationalisation' , 'international competitiveness' , 'technical need' and the wonders of 'privatisation' . These onslaughts have confused labour's responses and allowed management to pursue cross-national industrial strategies under the guise of furthering the national interest. The interests of labour, by the same token, have been defined as unpatriotic and sectional. |
