Dynamics of Assertive Labour Movementism in Ethiopia: Organised Labour, Unrest and Wages in a Socio-Historical Perspective
UNIVERSITÀ DI PAVIA Dottorato in Storia – XXX ciclo TESI IN COTUTELA CON UNIVERSITY OF BASEL PhD Programme in African Studies Dynamics of Assertive Labour Movementism in Ethiopia: Organised Labour, Unrest and Wages in a Socio-Historical Perspective Presented by: Samuel Andreas Admasie Under the Supervision of: Massimo Zaccaria, Università di Pavia Elisio Macamo, University of Basel Acknowledgements The research presented in this dissertation has been supported by funding from the University of Pavia, the University of Basel, and the Freiwillige Akademische Gesellschaft Basel. I am deeply grateful for this. I am thankful to the Department of Political and Social Sciences of the University of Pavia, the Centre for African Studies of the University of Basel, and the Graduate School of Social Sciences of the University of Basel for all the support they have extended to me. I am also grateful to the International Institute of Social History, for which I have been working since 2013 and which has hosted collections and conducted digitisation projects which have been essential to this dissertation. I am also grateful to the Department of Political Science and International Relations of Addis Ababa University, which hosted me for five semesters, facilitated my access to the archives on which much of this dissertation is based on, and gave me the delightful opportunity to teach members of a new generation of talented social scientists. The Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies of the University of Hargeisa also deserves a mention in this regard, as does the International Graduate School NorthSouth, and the African Studies Centre Leiden. I would like to express my gratitude to my supervisors, Prof Massimo Zaccaria and Prof Elisio Macamo, for their kind support, guidance and patience; my supervisor at Addis Ababa University, Prof Kassahun Berhanu; and Dr Stefano Bellucci, Prof Uoldelul Chelati Dirar, and Dr Yeraswork Admassie, who either reviewed or commented on dissertational drafts, or served on my doctoral committee.
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