The State and the Working People in Tanzania

Dakar, CODESRIA, 1987, 216 p., ISBN : 0-90696-812-7 (paperback) ISBN : 0-90696-813-5 (cased)

The focus of this book is on elucidating relations between the state & the working people in post independence tanzania. Although varied in details & nuances, the central theme of all contributions is to show the rise of the authoritarian state as an organisation of the compradore ruling class under imperialist hegemony & the suppression co-optation of independent organisations of the working class