Zambia Unions Research

The friendship since 1964 when China and Zambia established diplomatic relations, has made Zambia one of China's most enduring friends on the African continent, and with the expanding economic, trade and non-governmental exchanges in recent years, both parties also need to strengthen exchanges and cooperation. However, issues related to labor relations in recent years has become a major theoretical, practical and legal problem faced by the Chinese enterprises when they invest in African countries including Zambia and expand their businesses and market size. And there is lack of overall research of survival and development of Africa's industrial workers since their independence over the past fifty years, much less the case by country empirical study. The degree of awareness and attention of African trade unions and labor issues is not enough. The background of labor relations is complex, so we need to do a systematic and theoretical research on the past, present, future trends and operation system and status of trade unions and trade union movement. At the same time, we need to do a empirical study on the complex relationship between labor unions and employees, employers and the government, thus providing some policy advice for the development of Chinese enterprises in Africa and consolidating China-Africa friendship. With the evolution history of modern trade unions in Zambia as the main line, this paper selects a national perspective and has made an exploration of the understanding of African trade union movement. The full text is supposed to be comprised of five parts in detailed elaboration. The first part describes the rise and development of the trade union movement in Zambia; the second part is about the trade unions of Zambia under the one-party system; the third part is about the trade union under the multi-party system in Zambia; the fourth section describes the development status of the trade union movement in Zambia; the fifth part elaborates the development characteristics and development prospects of the trade union movement in Zambia through some thought from the introduction of its process. By discussion of these chapters, the thesis makes an attempt to reproduce the development evolution process of the trade union movement in Zambia from the middle of last century to the beginning of this century.In the long run, trade union organizations in Chinese enterprises should also go out to meet the development context of globalization with large-scale overseas investment of Chinese enterprises, strengthening and upgrading their position and role in the Chinese enterprises and economy, and to meet the requirements of the international community, establishing a mode of development, labor standards and management with Chinese characteristics. This paper selects the case of Trade Unions of the Zambia Congress, a powerful union, with the combination of empirical and theoretical research, focusing on the future actual development the needs of Chinese enterprises in Africa. On the other hand, this paper discuss the course of development of trade unions in Zambia in reference to a number of first-hand foreign materials, and analyzes their impact on Zambian society from all aspects of the trade union movement, making a systematic elaboration and analysis of the long history of Zambia Congress of Trade Unions to clarify the problem which must be explained but has not been clarified, and draw on the useful inspiration for the development of society and history.