A simmering crisis in the Nigerian agriculture today involves labour and the crisis manifests itself in the degree of labour availability, labour demand and labour productivity. One of the major products of this crisis is the increased participation of children in paid, non-familiar agricultural jobs. Agriculture ranks as one of the three most dangerous work activities, along with mining and co...

This paper is concerned with recent changes in the way capital-labour relations are regulated in German SMEs. By investigating 28 firm case-studies in the Ruhr Area, it is argued, first, that capital-labour relations in Germany are getting downscaled and decentralised, profoundly changing the traditional power geometry between capital and labour; second, that the regulatory landscape is being '...

Globalisation and labour relations in Australian airlines industry: A case study of pilot experience Peter Schulte and Ying Zhu The University of Melbourne The 1989 pilots’ dispute fundamentally altered the nature of pilot labour relations in Australia. The once powerful pilot union was convincingly defeated by airline management with the assistance of the Government. Since the dispute ended in...