TY - BOOK AU - Kester, Gérard AU - Britwum, Akua O. TI - Trade unions and workplace democracy in Africa T2 - (Contemporary Employment Relations) PY - 2007/// CY - Aldershot : PB - Ashgate KW - SINDICATOS KW - RELACIONES LABORALES KW - COMERCIO KW - ÁFRICA N1 - Post-independence labour relations in Africa -- The development of workplace democracy -- A theory of the dynamics of workplace democracy -- Studying democratic participation in Africa -- Conditions of work and employment -- The trade union condition -- The struggle for workplace democracy in Togo, Burkina Faso, Mali, Guinea, Ghana and South Africa -- Statutory workplace democracy in Zambia, Tanzania and Zimbabwe -- Managerial prerogatives versus participation prerogatives -- The gender of trade union democratic participation in Ghana / by Akua O. Britwum -- Towards more meaningful and effective workplace democracy -- Building a trade union agenda -- Trade unions and workplace democracy in a globalising economy ER -