Nicoli Nattrass, Jeremy Seekings

Inclusive Dualism

Labour-Intensive Development, Decent Work, and Surplus Labour in Southern Africa

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Produktbeschreibung

This book uses the South African case to argue for inclusive dualism as a development strategy in surplus labour countries. It shows that low- and high- productivity firms can co-exist and challenges the notion that a race to the bottom is inevitable.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press (UK)
• Seitenzahl: 230
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Juli 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9780198841463
• ISBN-10: 0198841469
• Artikelnr.: 56790316

Autorenporträt

Nicoli Nattrass is Professor of Economics at the University of Cape Town. She writes extensively on welfare, development, and public policy in South and Southern Africa, and has published numerous articles and books focusing on the political economy of inequality and health in South Africa, and on the interface between science and society. She is a regular Visiting Professor at Yale University, and is Co-Director of the Institute for Communities and Wildlife in Africa at the University of Cape Town, where her research focuses on the socio-economic determinants of human-wildlife conflict and on the role of science in policy making. She is the author of The Political Economy of South Africa (OUP, 1990) The Moral Economy of AIDs in South Africa (CUP, 2004), and Policy, Politics, and Poverty in South Africa (with Jeremy Seeking, Palgrave Macmillan, 2015). Jeremy Seekings is Professor of Political Studies and Sociology at the University of Cape Town. He writes extensively on welfare, development, and public policy in South and Southern Africa, and is a regular Visiting Professor at Yale University. He is the author of Policy, Politics, and Poverty in South Africa (with Nicoli Nattrass Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), Macroeconomics Simplified: An Introduction to Keynesian and Neo-Classical Macroeconomic Systems (Sage, 2014), and (with Nicoli Nattrass) Class, Race, and Inequality in South Africa (Yale University Press, 2005).

Inhaltsangabe

* 1: Introduction to Inclusive Dualism
* 2: Dualism and Development
* 3: Labour Productivity and Employment in Surplus Labour Countries
* 4: Trajectories of Development and the Global Clothing Industry
* 5: The Moral Economy of Low-Wage Work
* 6: Decent Work Fundamentalism and Job Destruction in the South
African Clothing Industry
* 7: The Political Economy of Upgrading: Trade Union Strategy and
Industrial Policy in South Africa
* 8: Conclusion: Unemployment, Inclusive Dualism, and the Illusion of
Decent Work Fundamentalism