The Post-Fordist High Road? A South African Case Study

Hunter, Mark

doi:10.1080/025890000111977

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“…Some employers achieved this by introducing modern machinery, retrenching workers, and creating a more flexible division of labour on the shop floor. They achieved the latter by increased training of workers to allow multi tasking and more participation in day-to-day production decisions (Hunter, 2000;Joffe, 1997;Mager, 2010;Masondo, 2005;Rosenthal, 1997;von Holdt, 2005). The consequence of these business strategies was that, when manufacturing output increased, factories required less semiskilled and unskilled manual labour than would otherwise have been the case.…”

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Does Deindustrialisation Cause Social Polarisation in Global Cities?

Crankshaw

Borel-Saladin

2014

Environ Plan A

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The social polarisation hypothesis argues that deindustrialisation causes the polarisation of the occupational structure, which in turn causes the income polarisation of the employed workforce of global cities. A central argument is that social polarisation occurs because the service sector is more polarised in occupational and income terms than the manufacturing sector that it replaces. However, the results of many studies suggest that deindustrialisation has not resulted in social polarisation. Instead, deindustrialisation has produced a professionalised occupational structure alongside high levels of unemployment. The results of this study of the Johannesburg region confirm that deindustrialisation results in professionalisation rather than polarisation. We then proceed to examine this outcome by analysing the statistical relationship between economic restructuring and the changing occupational structure. Our results suggest that changes in the overall occupational structure were caused by changes within each economic sector rather than by the growth of service sector employment and the decline of manufacturing sector employment.

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Does Deindustrialisation Cause Social Polarisation in Global Cities?

Crankshaw

Borel-Saladin

2014

Environ Plan A

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“…Case studies of work restructuring across the mining, manufacturing and service sectors show that labour-management relations in the workplace continue to be characterized by authoritarian management practices and high degrees of adversarialism (Webster and Omar, 2003;von Holdt, 2003;Webster and von Holdt, 2005;Hunter, 2000). In the 'co-operation in labour-employer relations' index of the Global Competitiveness Report (World Economic Forum, 2014, South Africa ranks (for the third year in a row) 144th out of 144 countries.…”

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Industrial Relations in Emerging Economies

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Lee²

2018

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“…The idea was that workplace modernisation would pave the way for productivity gains and allow companies and workers to benefit from trade liberalisation. Hunter (2000) has shown the numerous limitations of this approach, with in particular a marked deterioration in pay and working conditions.…”

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