Title Inclusive dualism : labour-intensive development, decent work, and surplus labour in Southern Africa / Nicoli Nattrass and Jeremy Seekings

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 212 pages) : illustrations Series Critical frontiers of theory, research, and policy in international development studies Critical frontiers of theory, research, and policy in international development studies. Contents Cover; Inclusive Dualism: Labour-intensive development, decent work, and surplus labour in Southern Africa; Copyright; Dedication; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; List of Abbreviations; 1: Introduction; 1.1 Unemployment, Decent Work, and Inclusive Dualism; 1.2 Decent Work Fundamentalism and Dystopia: Learning from South Africa; 1.3 Chapter Outlines; 2: Dualism and Development; 2.1 The Key Role of the Clothing Manufacturing Industry in Lewis-like Growth; 2.2 Unemployment and Development Strategy; 2.3 Inequality and Growth 3: Labour Productivity and Employment in Surplus Labour Countries3.1 The International Labour Organization's Decent Work Agenda; 3.2 Trajectories of Labour Productivity and Employment Growth in Surplus Labour Countries; 4: Trajectories of Development and the Global Clothing Industry; 4.1 Globalization and the Clothing Industry; 4.2 Value Chains and Firm Strategies; 4.3 'Upgrading' and National Development Trajectories in the Clothing Manufacturing Industry; 5: The Moral Economy of Low-Wage Work; 5.1 Minimum Wages, Welfare, and Employment 5.2 Wages and Welfare: Debating Minimum Wages and Sweated Labour in Late Nineteenth-Century Britain5.3 Debating the Ethics of Sweatshops and Minimum Wages in the Twenty-first Century; 5.3.1 The Macroeconomics of Minimum Wages and Employment in South Africa; 6: Decent Work Fundamentalism and Job Destruction in the South African Clothing Manufacturing Industry; 6.1 Minimum Wage-setting in the Clothing Manufacturing Industry; 6.1.1 Decent Work Fundamentalism and the NBC; 6.2 Trade and Industrial Policy; 6.3 Enforcing Minimum Wages and Job Destruction: The 2009-11 'Compliance Drive' 6.3.1 Non-compliant Newcastle6.3.2 Job Destruction Stalled; 6.3.3 The Challenges Posed by the Growth of Workers' Co-operatives for the NBC; 7: The Political Economy of Upgrading: Trade Union Strategy and Industrial Policy in South Africa; 7.1 Trade Unions and the State; 7.2 Union Investment Funds: Workers as Capitalists?; 7.3 The Rise of HCI: Trade Unions Take Advantage of Casino Capitalism; 7.3.1 HCI and Seardel; 7.4 Workers as Capitalists or Co-owners?; 7.4.1 SACTWU and the Challenge of Co-operatives; 8: Conclusion: Dualism, Unemployment, and the Perils of Decent Work Fundamentalism 8.1 The Challenge of Rising Unemployment Across Africa8.2 The Potential for Labour-intensive Development in Africa; 8.3 Social Protection and Surplus Labour in Southern Africa; 8.4 Conclusion; References; Index Summary W. Arthur Lewis, the founding father of development economics, proposed a dualist model of economic development in which 'surplus' (predominantly under-employed) labour shifted from lower to higher productivity work. In practice, historically, this meant that labour was initially drawn out of subsistence agriculture into low-wage, labour-intensive manufacturing, including in clothing production, before shifting into higher-wage work. This development strategy has become unfashionable. The International Labour Organisation (ILO) worries that low-wage, labour-intensive industry promises little more than an impoverishing 'race to the bottom'. This text argues that decent work fundamentalism, that is the promotion of higher wages and labour productivity at the cost of lower-wage job destruction, is a utopian vision with potentially dystopic consequences for countries with high open unemployment, many of which are in Southern Africa Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-206) and index Notes Print version record Subject Labor economics -- South Africa Economic development -- South Africa. Dual economy -- South Africa BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- General. Dual economy Economic development Economic history Labor economics SUBJECT South Africa -- Economic conditions -- 1991- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh92001766 Subject South Africa Form Electronic book Author Seekings, Jeremy, author. ISBN 9780191876967 0191876968 0192578472 9780192578471

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