Class Struggles in Ghana’s Mining Industry

This article analyses the relations between capital and labour in the Ghanaian mining industry over the past 15-20 years. It offers some concrete conclusions about the resulting kind and level of class consciousness attained by mineworkers, and further attempts to determine how that class consciousness and the struggles from which it has derived relate to the political economy of Ghana and especially to the role played by the state in Chat social formation. Sections: Introductory – The early years – The struggles intensify – The mineworkers and the military Regime: a fragile alliance – Confrontation: the end of the ‘alliance’ – Class struggle at the workplace – Mineworkers’ consciousness and the struggle for socialism. Bibliogr., notes, tab.