An economic history of South Africa: conquest, discrimination and development
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Contents
List
of tables
page
xii
List of figures
xv
List of maps
xvi
Preface
xvii
A note on terminology, country names, and currency
xix
Setting the context: South Africa in international perspective
1
A unique historical endowment
1
The economy in an international perspective
3
The people and economy before
1652 13
Seizing the land: conquest and dispossession
22
European expansion into the interior
22
Abundant land and scarce labour
32
The roots of conflict
34
Defeat and dispossession of the
Pedi
by British and Boers
37
The final outcome
-
land allocation in South Africa from
1913 43
Making the labour force: coercion and discrimination
47
Black labour for white masters
47
The use of compulsion to obtain labour
51
Taxes, restrictions on movement, and other forms of pressure
55
African labour on white-owned farms
60
Migrant labour for the mines
62
The paradox of scarce labour and low wages
67
The deterioration of the reserves
70
Creating the colour bar: formal barriers, poor whites,
and 'civilized' labour
74
Motivation and methods for creating a colour bar
74
The conflict with white mine-workers
77
The 'poor white' problem and the closing of the pastoral frontier
83
Labour policies of the Pact government,
1924-33 85
Exporting the gold: the vital role of the mineral revolution
90
Models of export-led growth
90
The special features of gold in South Africa
93
і
Contents
The character and expansion of the mining industry
99
Gold mining as the engine of growth
Ю6
Exploitation of African mine-workers
109
6
Transforming the economy: the rise of manufacturing
and commercial agriculture
113
Factories are few and unimportant
113
The state, tariff policy, and the rise of manufacturing industry
116
Expansion of industrial output and employment
121
Faults in the foundation
127
Inefficiency, low wages, and skill differentials
132
The destruction of African farming and slow progress of commercial
agriculture
' 35
7
Separating the races: the imposition of apartheid
143
From triumph to disaster
-
an overview of the post-war period
143
The political economy of developments after
1948 149
Apartheid versus urbanization
151
Trade unions, job reservation, and education
157
Domination or development?
161
8
Forcing the pace: rapid progress despite constraints
165
Three more windfalls for the gold mines
165
Manufacturing: the unprecedented boom
172
The expansion of the financial sector and the rise of Afrikaner capitalism
176
State-directed industrialization
180
Trends in employment, output, and productivity
184
Weaknesses and constraints
-
the limits to growth
188
A revolution finally comes to commercial agriculture
193
9
Hitting the barriers: from triumph to disaster
200
From growth and stability to stagnation and inflation
200
The decline of gold mining despite yet another windfall
203
The expansion of coal and platinum
210
Manufacturing's failure to achieve export-led growth
211
The decline in fixed investment
221
10
Confronting the contradictions: the final crisis
and the retreat from apartheid
224
Sanctions, capital flows, and the balance-of-payments crises
224
Changes in the labour market
230
The retreat from apartheid
240
The fallacy of 'cheap' labour
244
Annexe
1:
the people of South Africa
252
The black population before
1900 252
The white population before
1900 256
The population in the twentieth century
256
Contents xi
Annexe 2:
the land and the geographical environment
260
The land area and the geological legacy
260
Rainfall, soil, and vegetation
262
Diseases and pests
264
Agricultural regions
266
Annexe
3:
the labour force and unemployment
269
The census benchmarks
271
Labour market ratios
273
Interpolation and classification by economic sector
276
Guide to further reading
277
References
287
Index
294 |
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