PREFACE

The articles compiled here were written at different times and
for different purposes. Each, therefore, has its own specificity
both in content and in form. But all relate to the crucial issues of
the position of workers in Tanzania, the question of managing
public enterprises and the role of multinational corporations in
this. They deal with the whole relationship between workers and
management at enterprise level—and more specifically the im-
portant issue of workers’ participation in management.

Events in Tanzania move so fast that the material presented
here cannot claim to have exhausted the topic. More particularly
the most critical issues raised by the workers themselves in the
eventful period of 1971-74 would have much improved the
volume had they been covered fully. But the most interesting thing
about this collection is that the problems it deals with form the
groundwork that has very much determined the trend of events in
Tanzania's socio-economic reality.

It is thus hoped that this volume will foster greater and perhaps
more precise investigation of the issues raised here as an on-going
process.

H.M.

Dar es Salaam
February 1975.

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