The course aims to provide students with an understanding of theoretical foundations of labour and development with emphasis on how politics and economics impinge on labour relations and national development.  The following topics will be treated: the various development paradigms and their implication for labour, globalisation and international relations, as well as regional trade blocks. Also, to be treated are economic reforms and labour relations as well as labour migration. The course will equip students with analysis of global events and trends and their implications for labour relations in and outside Africa. Finally, critical interrogation of the complexities and trends in global political economic relations as a basis for devising alternative development paradigms.