Proponents of post-Fordism in South Africa envisage new industrial
spaces as “urban-centred growth poles” and explicitly dismiss the industrial
decentralization strategies pursued by the apartheid state in the
former bantustans as being “at variance with modern industrial experience”
(Kaplinsky, 1991:54). In fact, despite overall industrial decline and
sharp cuts in state subsidies for industrial decentralization, industries in
some former bantustan areas continued to expand in the 1990s, driven
partly by Taiwanese investment and more recently by investment from
mainland China (Hart and Todes, 1997; Hart, forthcoming). Some of these
industrial complexes exhibit many features of ideal-type flexible specialization—industrial
clusters, network production, and close interfirm cooperation—but
combined with low-wage, typically coercive labor relations
and intense conflict between industrialists and the predominantly female
workforce.
Proponents of post-Fordism in South Africa envisage new industrialspaces as “urban-centred growth poles” and explicitly dismiss the industrialdecentralization strategies pursued by the apartheid state in theformer bantustans as being “at variance with modern industrial experience”(Kaplinsky, 1991:54). In fact, despite overall industrial decline andsharp cuts in state subsidies for industrial decentralization, industries insome former bantustan areas continued to expand in the 1990s, drivenpartly by Taiwanese investment and more recently by investment frommainland China (Hart and Todes, 1997; Hart, forthcoming). Some of theseindustrial complexes exhibit many features of ideal-type flexible specialization—industrialclusters, network production, and close interfirm cooperation—butcombined with low-wage, typically coercive labor relationsand intense conflict between industrialists and the predominantly femaleworkforce.
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