Globalization and the South African textiles industry:Impacts on firms and workers

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Roberts, Simon and Thoburn, John T. (2004) Globalization and the South African textiles industry:Impacts on firms and workers. Journal of International Development, 16 (1). pp. 125-139. ISSN 0954-1748

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Abstract

South Africa has been integrating into the global economy since the early 1990s through a rapid programme of trade liberalization. Its textile industry-an activity important in manufacturing value-added in most developing countries-illustrates the effects of this policy on firms and their employment and wage payments, which are among the most important channels through which trade shocks affect poverty in an economy. Exporting has been driven by trade liberalization, but the restructuring of firms has involved substantial falls in total textile employment, while production has stagnated. Labour productivity has increased and average real wage payments have risen.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: geography, planning and development,development ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/3300/3305
Faculty \ School: Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Global Development (formerly School of International Development)
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Depositing User: LivePure Connector
Date Deposited: 26 Nov 2021 01:39
Last Modified: 09 Apr 2023 00:10
URI: https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/82344
DOI: 10.1002/jid.1067

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