An Economic History of South Africa: Conquest, Discrimination, and DevelopmentCambridge University Press, 23 de jun. de 2005 - 302 páginas "This book is the first economic history of South Africa in over sixty years. Professor Charles H. Feinstein offers an authoritative survey of 500 years of South African economic history from the years preceding European settlements in 1652 through to the end of the apartheid era."--Back Cover. |
Conteúdo
Setting the context South Africa in international perspective | 1 |
The economy in an international perspective | 3 |
The people and economy before 1652 | 13 |
Seizing the land conquest and dispossession | 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 |
Trade unions job reservation and education | 157 |
Domination or development? | 161 |
Forcing the pace rapid progress despite constraints | 165 |
the unprecedented boom | 172 |
The expansion of the financial sector and the rise of Afrikaner capitalism | 176 |
Statedirected industrialization | 180 |
Trends in employment output and productivity | 184 |
Weaknesses and constraints the limits to growth | 188 |
Making the labour force coercion and discrimination | 47 |
The use of compulsion to obtain labour | 51 |
Taxes restrictions on movement and other forms of pressure | 55 |
African labour on whiteowned 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 |
The conflict with white mineworkers | 77 |
The poor white problem and the closing of the pastoral frontier | 83 |
Labour policies of the Pact government 192433 | 85 |
Exporting the gold the vital role of the mineral revolution | 90 |
The special features of gold in South Africa | 93 |
The character and expansion of the mining industry | 99 |
Gold mining as the engine of growth | 106 |
Exploitation of African mineworkers | 109 |
Transforming the economy the rise of manufacturing and commercial agriculture | 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 | 135 |
Separating the races the imposition of apartheid | 143 |
The political economy of developments after 1948 | 149 |
Apartheid versus urbanization | 151 |
A revolution finally conies to commercial agriculture | 193 |
Hitting the barriers from triumph to disaster | 200 |
The decline of gold mining despite yet another windfall | 203 |
The expansion of coal and platinum | 210 |
Manufacturings failure to achieve exportled growth | 211 |
The decline in fixed investment | 221 |
Confronting the contradictions the final crisis and the retreat from apartheid | 224 |
Changes in the labour market | 230 |
The retreat from apartheid | 240 |
The fallacy of cheap labour | 244 |
the people of South Africa | 252 |
The white population before 1900 | 256 |
the land and the geographical environment | 260 |
Rainfall soil and vegetation | 262 |
Diseases and pests | 264 |
Agricultural regions | 266 |
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 |
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OECD Reviews of Innovation Policy OECD Reviews of Innovation Policy: South ... OECD Prévia não disponível - 2007 |