South African newspaper published every Sunday. Has a feature "Labour
Guides" on South African issues and links to labor-related
sites. http://www.btimes.co.za/
Wealth of information, for paid subscribers, on South African law, taxation,
accounting. A free sample of their databases can be seen on Butterworths
Express. Databases include: South African Law Reports, Constitutional Law
Reports, Labour Law Reports, Exmployment Law Journal.Also has the IR
Network, available thru paid subscription only. This includes Labour Court
Judgments, Labour Relations Act Judgments, labour legislation, labour news,
a trade union directory with union media statements, and collective agreements. http://www.butterworths.co.za/
Information on the South African labor movement and COSATU, Congress
of South African Trade Unions.Press releases, key discussion documents,
articles from The Shopsteward, photos. Also links to the South
African community radio sector and the South African film
industry.
http://www.cdc.org.za/
Has full text papers on Angola, Mozambique. Hosted on the site of
the Dept. of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies, King's College London. All
papers include a bibliography. [KF] http://www.kcl.ac.uk//depsta/humanities/pobrst/conference.html
Labor federation founded in 1985, a partner with the African National Congress
in the Tripartite Alliance. Has their journal, The Shopsteward,
speeches, parliamentary submissions, articles, a directory
of affiliate trade unions with union logos, COSATU Information Digest, COSATU
Campaigns Bulletin, meeting minutes, the 1997 national congress proceedings,
press releases, a directory
of Southern Africa unions with links to labor web sites. They
will have online discussion forums. http://www.cosatu.org.za/
Focus International, a Canadian consulting firm, provides labor statistics
for Africa mainly taken from the International Labor Organization. Part of
their Women in Development
Network site.
http://www.focusintl.com/widsta0.htm
In German. Based in Bonn, Germany, a non-profit which promotes political
education, the democratization of social structures, free trade unions, offers
scholarships. Has information on their African
programs.http://www.fes.de/
Use the Search box. Has an Annual Survey of Violations of Trade Union Rights
including in African countries, a database of ICFTU
affiliated trade unions in Africa. http://www.icftu.org/
A labor rights group working to ban cocoa imports from Cote d'Ivoire because
of child labor / child slavery used in Cote d'Ivoire cocoa production. Has
a May 2002 report on "Violence against women in the workplace in Kenya" concerning
sexual harassment in the manufacturing sector. [KF] http://www.laborrights.org/
Includes a page on the ILO Regional Office for Africa: African
Labour Information System (ALIS).
ALIS: http://www.unicc.org/ilo/bibl/ialis.htm
ILO: http://www.unicc.org/ilo/index.htm
Labour Market Information Database for Ethiopia. Developed by the ILO and the Ethiopian Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs (MOLSA). The database includes 22 labour market statistics on national and provincial level. Includes labour force, employment, unemployment, informal employment, education, child labour, and economic activities of people with disabilities. http://www.oit.or.cr/eamatdata/
An Information Base on Equal Employment Opportunities for
Women and Men. For the African countries covered (Egypt, Ivory Coast,
Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia) provides information on
all or some of the following - equal employment legislation;
collective agreements; case law, customary law, labor courts,
workers' and employers' organizations, national guidelines, government
programs, links to related sites. http://www.ilo.org/genprom/eeo
Use the ATLAS
database to locate African country information: key labor and employment
facts. [KF] http://www.ilo.org/public/english/dialogue/govlab/index.htm
Covers Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa,
Swaziland, Zambia and Zimbabwe. "giving policy and technical
advice, conducting training workshops and seminars,...providing information,
developing and executing technical cooperation projects...." Its SamatData is
a database on employment and labour in the SADC countries The database
includes annual data from 1980 onwards and covers the SAMAT countries plus
Angola, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Mauritius, the Seychelles and
Tanzania. [KF]
Includes: links to sites on labor movements and labor studies, the latest
RC44 Newsletter which has information on the South African Sociological Assoc.
July 1996 conference, a directory of labour researchers which includes their
research interests, tables of contents of recent labor journals; there are
some Africa-related articles. The site is maintained by Michael Shalev. [KF]
http://pluto.mscc.huji.ac.il/~mshalev/welcome.htm
Kadalie,
Dr. Clements, (1896 - 1951), "Champion of the African Workers" -
Donal Brody
Profile (7 p.) by Dr. Brody (antiquarian bookseller) on the founder of
the Industrial and Commercial Worker's Union (ICU). Has photographs and excerpts
from letters with Arthur Creech-Jones, UK labor leader. [KF] http://www.greatepicbooks.com/epics/april99.htm
Founded to "provide continuous training and policy research in areas such
as labour legislation, collective bargaining, affirmative action,
gender equality, Namibia's political economy and globalisation,..." Has full
text reports: Export Processing Zones in Namibia, Playing the Globalisation
Game: The implications of economic liberalisation for Namibia; NGO Survey,
Privitisation, Pay Equity, Workers Rights, the SME Sector in Namibia, Foreign
Direct Investment in Africa. Also has full text Workshop Papers such as on
Globalisation and Employment. Based in Windhoek, Namibia. [KF] http://www.larri.com.na
The Industrial Relations Court has original jurisdiction over labour
disputes and other issues relating to employment in Malawi. Includes many
full text sample cases. Based in Limbe, Malawi. http://www.sdnp.org.mw/~esaias/irc
Articles on workers' rights issues at Lesotho textile factories which supply
to Hudson
Bay Company of Toronto, Canada. http://www.maquilasolidarity.org/
An excellent resource for locating U.S.
archival holdings on Africa. For African labor history, see the
Maida Springer Kemp and Jay Lovestone collections. NUCMC is a database
operated by the U.S. Library of Congress providing information on archival
holdings in the U.S. To search select: NUCMC Z39.50 Gateway
to the RLIN AMC file If you can't tell from the record which repository has the
collection, select the Tagged Display option at the bottom of the page
and scroll to the end of the Tagged Display screen. [KF]
The "largest metalworkers union in South Africa.". Members are
auto workers, mechanics, steelworkers, and others. Includes press releases,
officers, a history, a directory of their regional offices, an issue of NUMSA
News, reports, speeches, resolutions from their Fifth
National Congress, resolutions
from 1987 to 1996, etc. [KF] http://www.numsa.org.za/
South African union founded in 1987, affiliated to COSATU. Claims to be
the biggest public sector union. Has a magazine, NEHAWU. Based in
Johannesburg. http://www.nehawu.org.za/
"NECA is the umbrella organization of employers in the Organised Private Sector of Nigeria. It was formed in 1957 to provide the forum for the Government to consult with private sector employers on socio-economic and labour policy issues." See also NECA's Network of Entrepreneurial Women. http://www.necang.org/
"a technical arm of the National Industrial Safety Council of Nigeria (NISCN) which is a tripartite organization comprising (The governments, Employers and Labour) established by the Federal Government of Nigeria in 1964 to monitor industries/factories activities to ensure Safety of people and advise on the need for legislation." Membership database. Based in Lagos, Nigeria. http://www.nispnigeria.com/
Extensive information on South African legal issues. Has labor court judgments, links
to related sites (labor relations, etc.) Edited by Lance Michalson from Cape
Town. http://www.salaw.co.z
"a union of organising teachers - irrespective of race, creed, or
gender - nationally throughout South Africa." Has the code of conduct,
articles and cartoons from its journal, Educator's Voice. http://www.sadtu.org.za/
Has their address, list of officers, a solidarity letter supporters can
send to govt. officials, press releases regarding the 1997 strike. http://www.anc.org.za/cosatu/swazi/
Chapter 4 discusses access
to primary education, education laws and policies, education data,
including data on educational attainment and government expenditures on
education, factors limiting access to primary education, government initiatives
to overcome limitations to access and increase primary school accessibility,
enrollment, retention, and completion. http://www.dol.gov/dol/ilab/public/media/reports/iclp/sweat5/
Catalog of political ephemera (from political parties, trade unions and pressure groups) including from African countries. See the Commonwealth Author and Title Lists. "particularly
strong holdings from South Africa and from the former frontline states." Online posters (African National Congress, Zimbabwe elections). Full text pamphlets (South Africa, Northern Rhodesia, Southern Rhodesia), and a paper by Danny Millum. http://www.sas.ac.uk/polarch
See also the one day workshop on
'Political ephemera from the Commonwealth and Latin America'
July 4, 2005. Program (pdf) . Abstracts (pdf).
"Voice of the labour movement." Newsletter of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade
Unions. Full text articles, includes older issues of the newsletter. See also
their other site, Zimbabwe Congress
of Trade Unions. Based in Harare, Zimbabwe. http://www.africaonline.co.zw/theworker/
"We are dedicated to the logical completion of the workers' and peasants'
struggle, which has been hijacked in Zimbabwe by the ruling ZANU(PF) nationalists
and their international collaborators." http://www.socialist.org/zlp/
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