Jeremy Baskin is a specialist in
sustainable business practice. He is a director of the University of Cambridge's Programme for Industry, running a global programme on Business & Poverty and a range of other programmes in Australia. Baskin is also a
South African
labour market analyst.
Baskin became involved as a
trade unionist in the militant black unions of South Africa in the 1970s and worked his way up to general secretary of the
Congress of South African Trade Unions
The Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) is a trade union
A trade union (labor union in American English), often simply referred to as a union, is an organization of workers intent on "maintaining or improving the conditions ...
' Paper, Printing, Wood and Allied Workers' Union. He was also an executive member of COSATU.
In 1991, he wrote ''Striking Back'', a history of COSATU. It covered the period from 1985 until the release of
Nelson Mandela
Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (; ; 18 July 1918 – 5 December 2013) was a South African Internal resistance to apartheid, anti-apartheid activist who served as the President of South Africa, first president of South Africa from 1994 to 1 ...
in 1990. In 1994, he became the director of COSATU's think-tank, the National Labour and Economic Development Institute (''Naledi'') and in 1998, after a stint as a senior public servant, he was appointed advisor to the South Africa's Minister of Labour.
In September 2001, Baskin moved to
London and joined the Ethical Investment Research Service (''EIRIS'') as global head of research. In 2005 he joined the University of Cambridge, becoming the Director of
CPSL Australia.
References
* J. Baskin (1991) - Striking Back: a history of COSATU. Verso/Ravan. London/Johannesburg
External links
* http://www.cisl.cam.ac.uk/
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