Industrial Relations‚ Labour Productivity and National Development in Nigeria: The Roles of Labour Unions in Nigeria By: Abbas Bashir Department of Geography Modibbo Adama University of Technology‚ Yola E-mail: bashirmafindi@yahoo.com Abstract: The aim of this Paper is to briefly examine historical and conceptual bases of industrial relations and the role of labour unions in the process of national development in Nigeria. In doing so we regard Industrial Relation (IR) as an essential part of management
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famously known theorists are Emile Durkheim‚ Max Weber‚ and Karl Marx. Each studied and viewed social behavior in a way they believed was the way it should be viewed. They developed theories‚ created influential pieces of writings‚ taught how to look at society in a broader prospective‚ and much more. The findings of these men changed the way we look at society today and their contributions to this social science provide alternate ways of understanding it. Emile Durkheim came up with a theory to view
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Labour is the human element in the production process. It is the intellectual and physical effort of people in production. The labour market is a factor market where the demand and supply of labour interact to determine the wage rate and the allocation of labour resources in the economy. The demand for labour is derived form the demand for the goods and services that labour is used to produce. The demand for labour is influenced by the level of economic activity‚ the productivity of labour and relative
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New Labour.’ With respect to the history of politics‚ New Labour’ is a fairly recent description of a change or shift in the Labour party ideology occurring within the last 12 years. It refers to a gradual shift of Labour from political left to a more conservative right wing approach to various issues and in terms of the political spectrum‚ Labour now occupy the middle-to-right area‚ rather than the middle-to-left of the previous Old Labour. The phrase was first coined in a 1994 Labour Party
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Student number – 2217830 Should Labour embrace a blue future? In the 2010 general election‚ it was won by the conservative party who became the governing party of Britain with the help of the liberal democrats in the form of a coalition. This victory saw the labour party lose their first general election since 1997 and it the 2010 general election was seen as a very poor performance for the labour‚ this could be due to the fact that labour lost a vast amount of votes across all social classes
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Child labour is a major problem in India. It is a great challenge that the country is facing. The prevalence of it is evident by the child work participation rates which are higher in India than in other developing countries. Estimates cite figures of child labour between 60 and 115 million working children in India‚ the highest number in the world (Human Rights Watch‚ 1996). It is basically rooted in poverty. It is poverty that forces a child to earn money to support his family. Though it is prevalent
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Domestic Child Labour Introduction: Pakistan is a third world country which has a population of 187‚342‚721 (July 2011 est. Pakistan Demographics Profile 2012) out of which 22.3 % population is living below the poverty line (CIA fact sheet). In order to raise the house hold income poor people let their children to earn livelihood. In Pakistan child labour is usually accommodated in automobiles workshops‚ industries‚ hotels and houses. One of the major sectors which accommodate child labour is domestic
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Essay on the Importance of the Labour Market to HR Policy as Applied to Generic Sugar Company-South Africa This essay examine value of surplus labour and its effect on the HR policy of a company and also the importance of the shortage labour market to the HR policy. Surplus labour is an idea used by Karl Marx in his critique of political economy. It means labour performed in excess of the labour needed to produce the means of livelihood of the worker. It is also important in the world of HR. Torrington
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The Suitability of Child Labour in Pakistan Child labour is an issue that has been in debate for very long‚ however despite several debates and implementation of child labour elimination laws‚ it has not been completely eliminated and has formally or informally existed in one or the other form. The term “child labor” has many definitions that vary between institutions‚ however‚the International Labour Organization‚ or the ILO‚ defines child labor as “some types of work” done by children under the
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Solutions Answer to end of chapter questions: 2. The labour force is calculated as the sum of the employed and the unemployed‚ which in this case is 22‚000‚000 + 1‚000‚000 = 23‚000‚000. The labour force participation rate is calculated as the ratio of the labour force to the working age population: 23‚000‚000 / 30‚000‚000 = 77 %. The unemployment rate is calculated as the ratio of the number of unemployed workers to the size of the labour force: 1‚000‚000 / 23‚000‚000 = 4.3 %. 4. a) The poor
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