Programme South Africa

In January 2007 the GLU Masters programme with a focus on Labour and Development started at the University of the Witwatersrand (WITS), Johannesburg, South Africa. The core courses are:

Labour and Development

This course analyses the role of labour in economic development, both historically and in the current time of globalisation, with a focus on Southern Africa and the Global South. The course will look at the role of labour as an active agent of economic and political transformation.

Economic Policy, Globalisation and Labour

The aim of this course will be to understand different approaches to macroeconomics and their implications for trade unions. The role of wages in different economic paradigms will be examined as well as the role of incomes policy, macroeconomic co-operation and labour market institutions.

Coupled with an internship program with South African trade unions, the core and elective courses will ensure that graduates have acquired wide ranging skills when they return to their unions. In addition, and linked to the overall GLU programme, there will be global workshops, educational outings, conferences, publications and internet working groups. These will facilitate genuine global dialogue and sustainable international networks between participants and stakeholders in the programme.