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Owen Crankshaw - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Deindustrialization and racial inequality social polarisation in ethekwini
Cities, 2017Co-Authors: Mighael Lombard, Owen CrankshawAbstract:Abstract Scholars have argued that Deindustrialization has had different effects on the occupational structure of South African cities. Some have argued for a polarisation of the occupational structure, where the decline of the manufacturing sector is argued to result in a loss of middle-income jobs. This is accompanied by large growth of employment in high-income and low-income jobs, resulting in an occupational structure bereft of middle-income jobs and polarised between classes of high-income and low-income workers. Others have argued for a professionalizing pattern defined by the predominant growth of employment in highly-skilled, high-income managerial, professional, associate professional and technical jobs. In contrast to the growth of highly-skilled jobs is the stagnation or decline in growth of all other occupational groups, and rising unemployment. These changes in the occupational structure have also been argued to have specific consequences for persisting racial inequality. This study tests the aforementioned theories of occupational change by looking at the metropolitan municipality of eThekwini, which houses the city of Durban. It demonstrates that deindustrialisation in eThekwini is undergoing a pattern of middle-income, semi-skilled growth that does not support the polarisation or professionalization hypotheses. It also produces evidence that does not support the argument that deindustrialisation results in an occupational structure polarised between a class of mostly white, highly-paid managers and professionals and a class of mostly black (black Africans, coloureds and Indians) low-paid service workers as the eThekwini middle-class is undergoing substantial de-racialisation. However, it argues that inter-racial inequality still persists due to the uneven high-representation of whites in high-income jobs, opposed to the class of low-income workers and unemployed which are almost entirely dominated by black Africans. Alongside this is a pattern of deepening intra-racial inequality between the growing black African middle class, and the class of black Africans which dominate the unemployed.
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Deindustrialization professionalization and racial inequality in cape town
Urban Affairs Review, 2012Co-Authors: Owen CrankshawAbstract:Scholars argue that persistent racial inequality in Cape Town is caused by Deindustrialization, which has led to high unemployment among blacks (Africans, coloreds and Indians) and the polarization...
James Rhodes - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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the new sociology of deindustrialisation understanding industrial change
Sociology Compass, 2014Co-Authors: Tim Strangleman, James RhodesAbstract:This article reviews a range of new and established writing on deindustrialisation. It traces the origins of the concept from its popularisation in the early 1980s with the onset of large scale loss in the industrial regions of North America and Europe. We argue that with the passage of time, the academic field of deindustrialisation has matured as the scale and consequences of industrial loss become more apparent. We suggest here that sociology has not made the contribution it could have in this debate and that one of the key strengths of the area is its interdisciplinary nature; especially from disciplines such as geography, anthropology, and social history. Its key aim is to explain why this is the case and suggest that by fully engaging with the issue of deindustrialisation and the range of new material available, the sociology of economic life can develop a more rounded account both of work and its absence.
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Introduction to crumbling cultures: Deindustrialization, class, and memory
International Labor and Working-Class History, 2013Co-Authors: Tim Strangleman, James Rhodes, Sherry Lee LinkonAbstract:In this introductory essay we review key themes in the scholarly literature on Deindustrialization over the last twenty-five to thirty years. While the term Deindustrialization has been in use since the early 1980s, more careful attention needs to be brought to bear on the cultural significance of industrial change over time, including on how individuals and communities reinterpret Deindustrialization through the lens of memory. This essay highlights contributions that reflect multiple disciplines and approaches, including interdisciplinary work. We also argue that cultural representations such as photography, literature, the media, and personal narratives offer especially useful insights into the continuing significance of Deindustrialization, giving us access to the ways people are drawing on and constructing their memories of industrial work and of the process of Deindustrialization itself. This essay and the wider special issue suggest that taking a long view—from the perspective of more than two decades after major shutdowns—and examining documentary, personal, and creative representations provides important insights into the meanings and consequences of the experience of Deindustrialization for individuals, communities, and nations.
Carsten Jensen - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Capitalist Systems, Deindustrialization, and the Politics of Public Education:
Comparative Political Studies, 2011Co-Authors: Carsten JensenAbstract:Recent years have seen a number of studies on the determinants of educational spending. Almost all of the existing work emphasizes the importance of left-wing governments as a motor of expansion because such expansion allegedly ensures both redistribution and the facilitation of a supply-side economy. The existing literature thereby corroborates the power resource theory. Against this common wisdom the article presents an argument building on the varieties of capitalism approach. It is argued that education is a poor instrument for redistribution because access is universal and high-income groups have a tendency to use education even more than low-income groups. Instead, we argue that Deindustrialization is the main driver of educational spending because Deindustrialization constitutes one of the most salient threats to workers in modern societies. As Deindustrialization rises workers risk ending up with redundant skills, especially in countries where the average skills specificity is high, that is, coord...
Pamela J. Bettis - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Deindustrialization and Urban Schools: Some Theoretical Considerations.
The Urban Review, 1994Co-Authors: Pamela J. BettisAbstract:ion, along with ethnic and racial conflict? What kinds of curriculum are appropriate for schoolchildren whose job prospects have been radically altered because of Deindustrialization? How does the increasing urban abstraction that Castells, Touraine, and Poster discuss affect urban schools and urban students? What are the consequences for urban educational reform programs which do not address the economic, social, and spatial dynamics of the particular city in which they are located? Finally, what are the consequences for urban educational theorizing which does not address the economic, social, and spatial dynamics of Deindustrialization?
Christine Greenhalgh - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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International Trade, Deindustrialization and Labour Demand: An Input-Output Study for the UK (1979–90)
International Trade and Labour Markets, 1997Co-Authors: Mary Gregory, Christine GreenhalghAbstract:During the past 25 years Deindustrialization has been a particularly striking feature of the UK labour market. The process of employment loss in manufacturing accelerated during the period from 1979–90, often dubbed ‘The Thatcher era’. The absolute and relative loss of employment in UK manufacturing has variously been attributed (see, for example, Green, 1989) to: (a) loss of market share due to import penetration by both European and Asian competitors, that is, real Deindustrialization; (b) corporate restructuring and the ‘contracting-out’ of service activities to specialist providers, that is, notional Deindustrialization; (c) labour-saving technical progress in manufacturing which, ceteris paribus on the level of final demand, results in job losses, that is, Deindustrialization of employment, not output.
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international trade Deindustrialization and labour demand an input output study for the uk 1979 90
1997Co-Authors: Mary Gregory, Christine GreenhalghAbstract:During the past 25 years Deindustrialization has been a particularly striking feature of the UK labour market. The process of employment loss in manufacturing accelerated during the period from 1979–90, often dubbed ‘The Thatcher era’. The absolute and relative loss of employment in UK manufacturing has variously been attributed (see, for example, Green, 1989) to: (a) loss of market share due to import penetration by both European and Asian competitors, that is, real Deindustrialization; (b) corporate restructuring and the ‘contracting-out’ of service activities to specialist providers, that is, notional Deindustrialization; (c) labour-saving technical progress in manufacturing which, ceteris paribus on the level of final demand, results in job losses, that is, Deindustrialization of employment, not output.