In third-world countries an increasing number of people have been drawn into the process of industrialization as wage workers. The analyses here presented cover the limits set by workers to exploitation in workshop production, ethnicity as a workers' strategy, the role of workers' absenteeism and turnover, and labour strategies in a situation of recession and de-industrialisation. Using a historical approach labour migration, union strategy for democratisation, and the world-scale pattern of labour unrest are studied as outcomes of social conflict.

List of Maps - Preface - Acknowledgements - Notes on the Contributors - Practices and Strategies: Workers in Third World Industrialisation. An Introduction; I.Brandell - Workers' Perceptions and Practices in Algeria. The Cases of the El Hadjar Iron Plant and the Rouiba Industrial Motor Car Plant; S.Chikhi & A.El-Kenz - Day to Day Struggles in Mexican Workshop Production; F.Wilson - Basotho Miners, Ethnicity and Workers' Strategies; J.Guy & M.Thabane - Textile Unions and Industrial Crisis in Nigeria: Labour Structure, Organisation and Strategies; G.Andrae & B.Beckman - Steyr-Nigeria: the Recession and Workers' Struggles in the Vehicle Assembly Plants; Y.Bangura - Feuds, Class Struggles and Labour Migration in Calabria; G.Arrighi & F.Piselli - Trade Unions and Democracy: Chile in the 1980s; B.Parra - World-scale Patterns of Labour-capital Conflict; B.Silver - Index