Trade Union Essentials: Art of Solidarity and Participatory Democracy

This paper by Janaka Biyanwila is a modified chapter from his PhD "Trade Unions in Sri Lanka under Globalisation: Reinventing Worker Solidarity" completed at the University of Western Australia, in March 2004. The dissertation analysed the Sri Lankan trade union resistance to the post 1977 Export Oriented Industrialisation strategies and the unfolding neo-liberal market-driven politics. In Emphasising the cultural and the movement dimensions of unions, the study looked at the ways unions can regain their role as civil society actors or "swords of justice" on the basis of building worker solidarity. Please forward all comments to janaka@biz.uwa.edu.au.

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