Akua Opokua Britwum

Akua Opokua Britwum
University of Cape Coast | UCC · Department of Labour and Human Resource Studies

Doctor of Philosophy

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Organising platform workers Seventy-five years of trade union history in Ghana Social Reproduction, Power, and Inequality: the case of Ghana and South Africa

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Der Sammelband vereint eine Reihe von Fallstudien, die sich mit geschlechtsspezifischen Landrechten angesichts der Kommodifizierung von Landbesitz und des sozialen und wirtschaftlichen Wandels befassen. Die Fallstudien aus Ghana, Äthiopien, Madagaskar und Südafrika unterstreichen die Komplexität von Landrechten und untersuchen, wie Frauen ihre Rech...
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Purpose Platform work challenges the traditional modes of workers' organising for interest representation. This paper aims to examine the political potential for voice and representation of the organising efforts by ride-hailing drivers in Ghana. Design/methodology/approach The study design was qualitative and exploratory. Semi-structured intervie...
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This article analyses development planning in post-independence Ghana and Tanzania, particularly related to agriculture, in contrast with the contemporary neoliberal subsumption of African economies to market forces. The article derives lessons from both their successes and shortcomings. Ghana and Tanzania’s experiences suggest the importance of ag...
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Recent policy debates point to public service privatisation as a solution to the problems of state indebtedness, non-performance, and inefciency of the public sector. This privatisation agenda has raised concerns about the implications for jobs and working conditions. In developing countries like Ghana, where markets are weak or exhibit signs of fa...
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Informal waste collectors play an essentialrole in urban solid waste management; however,in many developing countries, they are neglectedin the waste management policy framework. Thispaper explored the policy regime of informal waste operators in waste management in Accra, Ghana.Drawing on qualitative data from in-depth interviews and focus group d...
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This article provides experimental empirical evidence on the penalization of a father of high professional status who decides to use a family friendly measure (FFM) offered by his company. A cross-cultural sample of university students (in the field of Business Administration and Economics) from Ghana and Spain was used to evaluate a hypothetical m...
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This article is focused on the political economy of two of Africa's “labour reserve” regions, northern Ghana and the Eastern Cape of South Africa. The majority of residents in these regions are taken as paradigmatic examples of “surplus populations.” They exemplify a main feature that has been used to theorize the concept of surplus populations tod...
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The resulting labor market transformations imposed by adjustment of national economies prompt changes in the organizational strategies of labor movements. Such strategies impact union governance and undermine union democracy. Strategies adopted by the Ghana Trades Union Congress (GTUC) and its national affiliates to cope with the fall-out of econom...
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The workplace constitutes an important arena for the perpetuation of gender inequality, while unions are the dominant mode for the pursuit of workers' rights. Studies examining the complex interrelationship between women's and men's positions in unions and the workplace have concluded that unions are failing to provide their female members the requ...

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