Globalization and the Trade Union Movement in Nigeria

Ibrahim, Alhaji Ahmadu

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“…Both the United States (the winner of the Cold War) and the United Kingdom (major ally) championed global integration and freer trade (Osondu-Oti, 2020a) globally. Globalisation then became linked to the spread of capitalism (Ibrahim, 2013) and free trade. Before the Cold War, two close observers of the capitalist revolution in Western Europe, Marx and Engels predicted that because of superior economic efficiency, capitalism would eventually sweep through the entire world, compelling other societies to restructure along the lines of Western Europe (cited in Sachs and Warner, 1995).…”

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China’s Market Expansion and Impacts on Nigeria’s Textile Industry

Osondu-Oti

2021

JCIRD

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This study analyses the various ways in which China’s market expansion impacts Nigeria’s textile industry. Two major surviving textile firms in Nigeria were studied: Sunflag Textile Manufacturing Company and the United Nigerian Textile Manufacturing Company. The study made use of documentary research and a qualitative case study, where an interview was employed as the research tool. Global economic integration/trade liberalization formed the theoretical basis for analysis. Findings reveal that China’s market expansion driven by globalisation impacts significantly on Nigeria’s textile industry. For instance, the influx of Chinese cheap textiles (80 per cent of textiles in the Nigerian market today are imported from China) and the re-export of textiles imported from China by neighbouring states such as the Benin Republic to Nigeria through smuggling has led to an almost total collapse of Nigeria’s textile industry. China has also taken advantage of the country’s huge infrastructure deficit and government neglect of the textile sector to replicate Nigerian unique Wax print known as Ankara, thereby displacing local producers. Thus, the once-thriving manufacturing textile sector has become moribund as Chinese textiles take over the Nigerian market. The study recommends that the Nigerian government should support (financially) the distressed/collapsed firms and also upgrade the country’s infrastructure particularly the power sector for the remaining textile firms to survive and compete successfully in a globalised world.

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China’s Market Expansion and Impacts on Nigeria’s Textile Industry

Osondu-Oti

2021

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“…Hitherto the focus of research on the scalar dimensions of glocalisation has predominantly been on states in the global North with some limited application of the concept in East Asia. Where scholars have examined globalisation trends in African states, in particular, this has focused on the national level, with some illustrating its negative impacts (Ibrahim, 2013), others emphasising its potential to stimulate economic growth (Zahonogo, 2017), and still others maintaining that the available evidence of its impact is inconclusive (Rudra & Tobin, 2017;Beri et al, 2022). There has been relatively little research undertaken on the impact of globalisation and neoliberalism on urban form in Africa (McDonald & Smith, 2004;McDonald, 2007 are exceptions) and virtually nothing on the phenomenon of glocalisation.…”

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Urban agglomeration, glocalisation, and the governance of scalar transformation in the global south: a case study from Cape Town, South Africa

Tapscott

2024

GPPG

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In theorising the rapid expansion of urban agglomeration across the world, a significant body of work has examined the transformation of scale from the perspective of geographical size and the regulatory facets of devolved power. A further literature has examined what are seen as the relational dimensions in the transformation and constitution of space and the extent to which these are socially constructed. In this conceptualisation, scale is constituted and reconstituted by capitalist relations of production, social production, and consumption. The influence of capitalist relations on scale has most explicitly been illustrated by the impact of globalisation and the way it has served to weaken the regulatory powers of nation states and is simultaneously reordering the hierarchy of government power within them. Metropolitan governments have been exposed to global markets and to the influence of transnational corporations and, in a process of glocalisation, increasingly endeavour to create an entrepreneurial environment conducive to attract and retain foreign investment. Hitherto the interpenetration of the global and local has largely been studied in the context of urban agglomeration and scalar transformation in the global North. In an attempt to address this lacuna this article examines the manifestation of the process of glocalisation in metropolitan Cape Town in South Africa in the global South. It posits that the municipal government’s ambition to transform the city into a modern digitally based economy linked to global markets manifests many of the characteristics of glocalisation. Furthermore, it argues, far from promoting greater social inclusion in a highly unequal post-apartheid city, the economic model which has been adopted is exacerbating social inequality and poverty.

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Globalization and the Trade Union Movement in Nigeria

Cited by 2 publications

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China’s Market Expansion and Impacts on Nigeria’s Textile Industry

China’s Market Expansion and Impacts on Nigeria’s Textile Industry

Urban agglomeration, glocalisation, and the governance of scalar transformation in the global south: a case study from Cape Town, South Africa

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