This course is intended to equip students to examine critically the interaction between Ghanaian and the global economy, politics and their impact on current living and working conditions in Ghana. The detailed topics to be treated are: The Ghanaian (pre)-colonial economy, economic reforms in Ghana and their effects on Ghanaian labour markets and labour relations; the role of supra-state institutions (IFIs: IMF, World Bank, WTO, MNCs) as well as the role of donor agencies (USAID, JICA, CIDA, SIDA) G-8, Paris Club, African Caribbean Pacific (ACP) in influencing the labour markets.