Zimbabwe
Labour's options within the movement for democratic change
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11904085 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Suzanne Dansereau (Saint Mary's University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue | 89 |
| Publication date | 2001-09-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Review of African Political Economy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0305-6244 • E-ISSN: 1740-1720 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/03056240108704548 |
| OpenAlex | W2031811229 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 10 |
The article sets out to understand the option for labour represented by the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), a movement made up of a wide cross section of groups opposing ZANU‐PFs twenty‐one year hold on power, with key leadership coming from the labour movement. The article seeks to understand the nature and potential for change embodied in the MDC given its alliance with groups from below, often labelled civil society or new social movement. It documents labour's radicalisation, moving from the shop floor into broader political action and alliance‐building and eventually into a direct partisan challenge for political power in the 2000 parliamentary elections. It analyses MDC policies, finding a seemingly contradictory emphasis on participation and social democracy, alongside the proposals for a mixed economy involving international donors and investors, with a moderate state role whose objective is to create employment and alleviate poverty. These policies reflect the loose alliance making up the MDC, ranging from citizen, labour and human rights groups, with some commercial farmers and industrialists. The challenge is to maintain support from the various interests within this common front as it consolidates itself into a party, capable of putting forward a national project. This requires a struggle between competing interests, and it is labour's actions within this struggle and its outcome that will ultimately define labour's options within this new grouping
Alliance · Civil society · Democracy · Economics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Poverty · Power (physics · Social movement · Sociology · African studies and sociopolitical issues · Asian Industrial and Economic Development · Labor Movements and Unions · Law
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History of Development
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Critical Development Theory
Democratization in Africa
Relationship between the state and civil society in the Zimbabwean elections 1995
The World Bank and Governance
Civil Society and the Aid Industry
| Citations per year | 0.24 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2005 - 2025 (21) |
| Highly cited | No |