Combined together in three volumes are the author’s writings on labour and employments relations in Nigeria spanning over three and a half decades. Volume three covers the dynamics of public sector employment relations and starts with a general review and critique of organised labour’s perceptions of and contributions to the development crisis in Nigeria.

Combined together in three volumes are the author’s writings on labour and employments relations in Nigeria spanning over three and a half decades. Volume one covers the Nigerian industrial relations industrial relations institutional and legal framework, trade unions and trade unionism, wage bargains and conflict relations.

This book contains the 9th Inaugural Lecture Series 2018 of the University of Lagos, Nigeria, delivered by Dafe Otobo on 4 July 2018. According to Professor Otobo, “this is a small part in the on-going attempt at placing state policies, organisational, managerial and workers practices in Nigeria, if not Africa and elsewhere, into truer perspective.” Aside from updating trade unionism and related developments in Nigeria, it is easily a thought-provoking and thorough-going critique of dominant received theories on labour and employment relations.

Combined together in three volumes are the author’s writings on labour and employments relations in Nigeria spanning over three and a half decades. Volume two covers the Nigerian industry-specific employment relations, comparative labour relations and cross-cutting African development issues.