Every day we are told by our government, by employers and in the media that our quality of life will be determined by whether we get foreign...
Resources
NEPAD
Everywhere, in newspapers and on TV, we read and hear about the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD). Most of the opinions in the media...
MOZAL
This booklet tells the story of the biggest EPZ of all in the southern African region: the Industrial Free Zone in Mozambique known as MOZAL. MOZAL...
Worker Education: A guide for trade unions
During the last two decades a lot has changed in many aspects of our lives. One of the biggest influences on these changes has been the rise of...
SDIs and IDZs: Promoting growth or promoting poverty?
In 1996 ILRIG published a booklet entitled Export Processing Zones: Solving the Problems of Southern Africa? Since that time the South African...
Globalisation Series No. 5: An Alternative View of the Southern African Development Community
The advance of SADC raises a number of questions for citizens of the member states and for workers. Some of the most important questions raised...
Workers are Publishers too
From 1996 to 2000 SACCAWU was involved in the production of educational materials for negotiators and shops stewards around the issue of Parental...
There is an Alternative: The Public Sector
The dominance of the market approach has put most unions on the back foot. We are told that our ideas about public sector delivery are “out of date”...
Globalisation Series No. 4: An Alternative View of Privatisation
In South Africa privatisation and nationalisation have been subjects of heated debate for many years. Perhaps these debates have never been hotter...
Globalisation Series No. 2: An Alternative View of Economic Crisis
In the second half of 1997 we first heard about the "Asian flu" - a supposed economic disease spreading around the world. In early 1998 the value of...
Workers World News Issue 10 (March 1998)
New look Workers’ World News! We have a new look and structure for our Workers’ World News. We hope our newsletter will become more useful to union...
Workers World News Issue 14 (Winter 1994)
A new government has been elected! The majority of people voted for an ANC government. Hundreds of thousands of women, who form 52% of the...