On neoliberal globalization 1
Neoliberal Globalization and the Informalization of Work; a Critical Class Analysis of Trade Union Strategies in Nigeria and South Africa Baba Aiyelabola Introduction Thatcher’s emergence in 1979 signalled the beginning of ‘the globalization of neoliberalism’, a hegemonic project of the transnational capitalist class (Sklair, 2001) which has had dire consequences for the working class globally and within countries. We shall utilize a neo-Gramscian perspective for our class analysis of the impact of this neoliberal counterrevolution with its TINA mantra which started in 1973 as “a war” in Chile. This war of a “few winners” against the ever more “precarious popular classes” (Amin, 2007) has entailed the restructuring of work, work relations and the ‘forms of state’; in the interest of capital. Social and economic inequalities have risen like never before in human history, unemployment and under-employment in absolute terms have been on the rise. The “many losers” in the neoliber...