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ToolsBezuidenhout, Andries, Khunou, Grace, Mosoetsa, Sarah, Sutherland, Kirsten and Thoburn, John (2007) Globalisation and poverty:Impacts on households of employment and restructuring in the Textiles industry of South Africa. Journal of International Development, 19 (5). pp. 545-565. ISSN 0954-1748
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This paper addresses an important but often neglected theme in debates on globalisation - the consequences for workers of engagement in global markets, particularly for those workers who are retrenched in the process. Using the South African textiles industry as a case study, the paper investigates the impact on workers' household livelihoods of industrial restructuring following trade liberalisation in the 1990s. Interviews with textile workers and retrenched textile workers were conducted in five locations in three provinces - the Western Cape, the Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal - in order to capture different local dynamics. Workers employed in textiles generally enjoy a relatively stable formal sector wage, which, though less than the manufacturing average, is well above the national poverty line. However, the benefits were not evenly spread between the regions and job insecurity has been increasing. Workers retrenched from textile employment have faced extreme difficulties in a country with exceptionally high levels of open unemployment, and many families have fallen into deep poverty, which may now be transmitted intergenerationally.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | globalisation,households,poverty,south africa,textiles,trade liberalisation,geography, planning and development,development,sdg 8 - decent work and economic growth ,/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 01:40 |
| Last Modified: | 09 Apr 2023 00:10 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/82356 |
| DOI: | 10.1002/jid.1308 |
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