Freek B. Schiphorst (Institute of Social Studies, The Hague)

Submitted: Thu, 15 Oct 1998 12:58:07 GMT+0100


Freek B. Schiphorst
Employment & Labour Studies Programme
Institute of Social Studies
P.O. Box 29 776
2502 LT  The Hague
The Netherlands

phone:       +31-70-4260-569
fax:         +31-70-4260-799
e-mail:      schiphorst@iss.nl
Home page:   http://www.iss.nl

Research interests: 
Labour and trade unionism in Sub Saharan Africa; more specifically: trade
unions and democratization (both at enterprise level and at national
level); trade union- state relations; trade unions and human resource
management (HRM); workers' participation and trade unions. A related
interest is workers' education & trade union training. 

I have done fieldwork in Ghana, and more recently in Zimbabwe (in the
period 1986-1995) on the above themes, in cooperation with the Zimbabwe
Congress of Trade Unions - ZCTU.  Other countries in whose trade union /
labour situation I am interested include: Zambia, Ghana, South Africa,
Kenya, Uganda, Nigeria. 

Currently I am completing a study on Worker Representation and Trade
Unions in Zimbabwe, 1980-1995. 

At the ISS, I lecture in labour relations in the MA (Development Studies)
Programme Employment & Labour Studies (ELS) 

In addition, I am an executive member of the Netherlands African Studies
Association, the professional association of Africanists in the
Netherlands. "The Netherlands African Studies Association also maintains a
database of 500 Africanists in the Netherlands, which can be
consulted on-line at:   http://www.nuffic.nl/africanists

(labor)