{"id":1158,"date":"2022-11-24T22:29:41","date_gmt":"2022-11-24T21:29:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sciencespo.fr\/research\/cities\/2022\/11\/24\/laurent-fourchard-expanding-profit-and-power-the-national-union-of-road-transport-workers-in-nigeria-canadian-journal-of-development-studies-revue-canadienne-detudes-du-developpement-2022\/"},"modified":"2022-11-24T22:29:41","modified_gmt":"2022-11-24T21:29:41","slug":"laurent-fourchard-expanding-profit-and-power-the-national-union-of-road-transport-workers-in-nigeria-canadian-journal-of-development-studies-revue-canadienne-detudes-du-developpement-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sciencespo.fr\/research\/cities\/2022\/11\/24\/laurent-fourchard-expanding-profit-and-power-the-national-union-of-road-transport-workers-in-nigeria-canadian-journal-of-development-studies-revue-canadienne-detudes-du-developpement-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Laurent Fourchard, &#8220;Expanding profit and power. The National Union of Road Transport Workers in Nigeria&#8221;, Canadian Journal of Development Studies\/Revue canadienne d&#8217;\u00e9tudes du d\u00e9veloppement, 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Nous vous signalons la parution d\u2019un article de Laurent Fourchard dans la revue <em>Canadian Journal of Development Studies \/ Revue canadienne d&#8217;\u00e9tudes du d\u00e9veloppement <\/em>intitul\u00e9 &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1080\/02255189.2022.2132924\">Expanding profit and power. The National Union of Road Transport Workers in Nigeria<\/a>&#8216;. <\/p>\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Abstract<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p>This article explores the power exercised by the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) over the transport workers in Lagos (Nigeria). With the privatisation of transport and the regulation of motor parks transferred from local governments to NURTW, the union has been able to expand the power of unionist leaders who have developed new managerial techniques to increase their own profits. The NURTW case reflects the adaptation of neoliberal norms within a union at the expense of its workers. The article suggests that union power over workers is as necessary a field of research as the recent renewal on power resources approach exploring the capacity of unions to empower workers.<\/p>\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n<p><strong>R\u00e9sum\u00e9<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p>Cet article explore le pouvoir exerc\u00e9 par le Syndicat national des travailleurs du transport routier (NURTW) sur les travailleurs des transports \u00e0 Lagos (Nigeria). Avec la privatisation des transports et la r\u00e9gulation des gares routi\u00e8res transf\u00e9r\u00e9e des gouvernements locaux au NURTW, le syndicat a pu \u00e9tendre le pouvoir de ses dirigeants qui ont d\u00e9velopp\u00e9 de nouvelles techniques de management pour accroitre leurs profits. NURTW refl\u00e8te l\u2019adoption de normes n\u00e9olib\u00e9rales au sein d\u2019un syndicat aux d\u00e9pens de ses travailleurs. L\u2019article estime que le pouvoir syndical sur les travailleurs est un domaine de recherche aussi n\u00e9cessaire que le r\u00e9cent renouv\u00e8lement des recherches sur les capacit\u00e9s du pouvoir syndical \u00e0 renforcer le pouvoir des travailleurs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nous vous signalons la parution d\u2019un article de Laurent Fourchard dans la revue Canadian Journal of Development Studies \/ Revue canadienne d&#8217;\u00e9tudes du d\u00e9veloppement intitul\u00e9 &#8216;Expanding profit and power. The National Union of Road Transport Workers in Nigeria&#8216;. Abstract This article explores the power exercised by the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) over the transport workers in Lagos (Nigeria). With the privatisation of transport and the regulation of motor parks transferred from local governments to NURTW, the union has been able to expand the power of unionist leaders who have developed new managerial techniques to increase their own<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sciencespo.fr\/research\/cities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1158"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sciencespo.fr\/research\/cities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sciencespo.fr\/research\/cities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sciencespo.fr\/research\/cities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sciencespo.fr\/research\/cities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1158"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sciencespo.fr\/research\/cities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1159,"href":"https:\/\/www.sciencespo.fr\/research\/cities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1158\/revisions\/1159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sciencespo.fr\/research\/cities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sciencespo.fr\/research\/cities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sciencespo.fr\/research\/cities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}