An increase in strike action can be correlated with an increase in favourable economic conditions within a country, region or industry, as has been the case, for the most part, over the past 50 years, says University of the Witwatersrand Society, Work and Politics Institute postdoctoral fellow Eddie Cottle. Although there have been a few abnormal events in the 50 years he looked at, he alludes that, for the majority of cases, former Russia Premier and political theorist Vladimir Lenin’s conclusion that quantitative and qualitative labels could be attached to certain industries and the type of workers employed there, thereby enabling for a strike model to be drawn up.
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