Le Syndicalisme Africain. Jean Meynaud & Anisee Salah-Bey. Payot, Paris.
This analytic survey of African trade unionism, intelligently conceived and modestly executed, is despite its more restricted scope reminiscent of Hodgkin’s Nationalism in Colonial Africa—an early yet still valuable study. It usefully resumes and concentrates our knowledge, sifting material from a wide variety of official and unofficial sources; it raises several critical questions for further investigation; and, more interesting, it proposes a tentative general model or explicative schema for understanding the evolution and current situation of trade unions in Africa.