Plantation Labour and Economie Crisis in Cameroon

Piet Konings

Development and Change, 1995, vol. 26, issue 3, 525-549

Abstract: The few existing studies on the response of labour to the economic crisis and structural adjustment in African countries tend to focus on the (oppositional) relations between the state and central labour organizations. They largely ignore the response of workers and unions at the workplace. This article describes how workers and unions in the tea estates of Cameroon have dealt with the economic crisis and structural adjustment. It shows that the workers have adopted various strategies to cope with the structural adjustment measures planned and implemented by the management in close co‐operation with the state‐controlled unions. Two striking facts to emerge from the analysis are that the majority of the estate workers have never completely abandoned their ‘traditional’ militancy, and that gender differences in the degree and modes of labour resistance tend to be slight.

Date: 1995
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