Articles · Vol. 30 No 4 (2005): Afrique et développement
The State and Labour Control in Malawi: Continuities and Discontinuities Between One-party and Multiparty Systems
DOI: 10.4314/ad.v30i4.22240
- DOI https://doi.org/10.4314/ad.v30i4.22240
- Publiée 2005-01-01
Résumé
En examinant de près les relations entre l'État et le monde du travail au Malawi, sur quatre décennies, l'on observe, comme dans bon nombre d'autres pays d'Afrique subsaharienne, diverses continuités et discontinuités au niveau du contrôle du milieu du travail. Si le système politique du Malawi a connu des changements significatifs tendant vers la démocratie, dan trois années de dictature combattant les syndicats à trave administratifs, politiques et juridiques, le nouvel État distingue par une certaine hostilité " diplomatique ", en t mieux régner, mais également en déployant des tactiques de diverses méthodes, l'État est parvenu à limiter la liber degrés, pendant la période du parti unique et du multipart le contrôle du monde du travail demeure l'objectif de l'Éta pour ce faire ont cependant radicalement changé. Le souhait stabilité politique et de favoriser le développement économ contexte politique international exigeant le respect des droit politique de gouvernance (années 90), explique certainem «diplomatique» qui caractérise les relations diplomatiques qu'a joué la communauté internationale des bailleurs de fo de valeurs et structures démocratiques auprès des sociétés démocratique intrinsèque, justifie également la présence tions entre la politique établie régissant le monde du travail et la pratique réelle.
The State and Labour Control in Malawi: Continuities and Discontinuities Between One-party and Multiparty Systems: DOI: 10.4314/ad.v30i4.22240
An analysis of state-labour relations in Malawi over a period of four decades reveals, like in other countries in Southern Africa, tendencies towards continui ties and discontinuities in labour controls. While Malawi's political system has undergone a major transformation to democracy in the 1990s after three dec ades of dictatorship which was hostile to trade unions through administrative, political and legal apparatuses, the democratic state has been marked by 'diplo matic' hostility through divide-and-rule and hide-and-seek tactics. Using differ ent means the state has succeeded in curtailing freedom of association in varying degrees during the one-party and multiparty periods. Thus, while labour control as an objective of the state has not changed, the means have changed dramatically. The desire to achieve political stability and economic develop ment, against a changed international political order demanding human rights and good governance in the 1990s, explains the current 'diplomatic' hostility in Malawi's industrial relations. The role of the international donor community in exporting democratic structures and values to societies that do not have an in built culture of democracy similar to western societies is viewed as a further explanation for the creation of significant degrees of discrepancies between la bour policy and practice in Malawi.
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