The history of the Senegalese labor movement is marked by emblematic struggles that shaped workers' consciousness and shaped the balance of power between the state, capital, and labor. Three major episodes—the 1947-1948 railway workers' strike, the events of May 1968, and the 1998 Sutelec strike—illustrate this trajectory of heroic resistance and fierce repression. (From *Afrique en lutte. La grève des cheminots (1947-1948): l'éveil anticolonial…
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The history of the Senegalese labor movement is marked by emblematic struggles that shaped workers' consciousness and shaped the balance of power between the state, capital, and labor. Three major episodes—the 1947-1948 railway workers' strike, the events of May 1968, and the 1998 Sutelec strike—illustrate this trajectory of heroic resistance and fierce repression. (From *Afrique en lutte. La grève des cheminots (1947-1948): l'éveil anticolonial…