Social relations of production in the Nigerian petroleum industry

Description:: This paper argues that labour in the Nigerian Petroleum Industry is not homogenous and that the employment conditions of labour are differentially determined according to the type of employment relationship labour entered into with capital. The industry has a dual system of recruitment which confers permanent employment status on one category of labour and contract employment status on another category of labour. We argue that contract labour is a divisionist strategy through which capital perpetuates its domination of labour by fractionalizing labour's bargaining power in order to weaken its resistance.
Date Issued:: 1987-08-01T00:00:00Z
Data Provider:: Michigan State University. Libraries
Collection:: African Journal of Political Economy
Place:: Nigeria, Nigeria, Nigeria, and Nigeria
Subject Topic:: Petroleum workers, Contract labor, Industrial relations, Collective bargaining, and Petroleum industry
Language:: English
Rights:: In Copyright
URL:: https://n2t.net/ark:/85335/m5rf5ms6s