Implementation of the policy of workers participation in Zanzibar
| dc.contributor.author | Kavishe, Waadili P'Sinare Lemama | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2016-05-16T06:36:02Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2020-01-07T16:22:17Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2016-05-16T06:36:02Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2020-01-07T16:22:17Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1984 | |
| dc.description.abstract | The 1964 Zanzibar revolution of the working people was led by the petty bourgeorisie in the Afro Shirazi Party against the semi feudal semi capitalist rule of the Sultan. The new regime adopted a revolutionary democratic policy with the ultimate aim of leading the country to socialism. However while several scholars have written a lot on the genesis and history of the working class in Zanzibar there has not been a serious attempt to investigate the question of workers participation there. Among the works on Zanzibar Lofchie (1965) Jabir (1978) Shao (1978) and Mogella (1979) have written much about the history of the working class in Zanzibar prior to and after the 1964 revolution. A casual reference to workers participation was however made by Mogella in 1979. This research is investigating the question of workers participation in Zanzibar from 1964 to date in the light of the Party (CCM) policy of involving the people in the decision making process. Chapter one deals with the definition of the problem area. It starts with giving the background to the 1964 revolution of the working people and also deals with the socio-economic developments in Zanzibar from 1964 to date. It argues that notwithstanding the revolutionary democratic policy of the party, workers participation in management is bound to encounter some problems due to the petty bourgeois character of the political leadership with the attendant neo-colonial economy. This basing on this background the chapter gives the following hypotheses. That apart from the organizational structure of the enterprise workers participation would depend the enterprise leadership is a democratic or bureaucratic; that workers participation would also be influenced by the technology received from outside which is characteristic of the neo-colonial economy; that the population size at the enterprise would also affect the process of workers participation; that workers participation would depend on how much the workers have identified themselves with the set plans; and that workers participation would also depend on the role of the party (CCM) organisation at the enterprise. Chapter two gives a theoretical conceptualization of the question of workers participation. It states that workers participation must be seen as a move geared toward merging the decision made collectively between the management and the workers of an enterprise in an economy whereby the means of production (characteristic of socialist as well as socialist oriented economies) such as policy is bound to be nothing other than a labour tension management technique characteristic of privately owned capitalist economies. However with regard to Zanzibar it is argued that due to the low level of development of the productive forces and the petty bourgeois character of the political leadership workers participation, despite the revolutionary democratic policy, is bound to have limitations. That while the Revolutionary council (R.C.) decree no. 1 of 1977 gave some participatory powers to the workers at the shop floor level the R.C. decree ib.1 of 1979 seems to have obolished that right only to institute instead a bureaucratic set up in the management of public enterprises. Chapter three is concerned with the research approach, the method of data collection the procedure for sampling as well as the techniques for data analysis. Chapter four is directed at a discussion of the organisation of production at SPC. Thus a discussion on the activities that are carried out at the SPC with regard to the activities that are carried out at the SPC with regard to the production of sugar as well as sugar based byproducts: alcohol, liquors and perfumes is made. That these activities have to be seen as a result of decision made at the enterprise. Chapter five is concerned with a discussion on the organisation of the labour process at SPC in the context of the power relations between the management and the workers at SPC. In addition an attempt is made to relate the discussion to Max Weker's theory of organisation that is characteristic of bureaucratic organisation. In chapter six the discussion is directed at seeing how our hypotheses relate to our findings at SPC. As such we discuss how the policy of workers participation is related to the quality of leadership obtaining at the enterprise, the type of technology, the population size as well as the role that is played by the party organisation at the enterprise. Chapter seven deals with the conclusion. There a summary of the relation of 1977 and 1979 decrees on Revolutionary committees to workers participation is made. In addition it is also shown how our research findings have helped us to confirm our expectations. Lastly the chapter gives recommendations that would help to improve the implementation of the policy of workers participation in Zanzibar in the light of the party’s policy of democratising further the decision making process. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.citation | Kavishe, W. P. L. (1984) Implementation of the policy of workers participation in Zanzibar, Masters dissertation, University of Dar es Salaam. available at (http://41.86.178.3/internetserver3.1.2/detail.aspx) | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/3111 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | University of Dar es Salaam | en_US |
| dc.subject | Employee's participation in management | en_US |
| dc.subject | Labour and labouring classes | en_US |
| dc.subject | Zanzibar | en_US |
| dc.title | Implementation of the policy of workers participation in Zanzibar | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |