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Title:Urban Small-Scale Industry on the Witwatersrand: Emergence, Destruction and Revival
Authors:Rogerson, Christian M.ISNI
Da Silva, M.
Year:1989
Periodical:African Urban Quarterly (ISSN 0747-6108)
Volume:4
Issue:3-4
Period:August-November
Pages:349-360
Language:English
Notes:biblio. refs., maps
Geographic terms:South Africa
Southern Africa
Subjects:small-scale industry
industrial policy
Development and Technology
Economics and Trade
urbanization
urban areas
government policy
Witwatersrand (South Africa)
history
Abstract:This paper examines shifting South African State policy and the evolution of urban small-scale manufacturing activities on the Witwatersrand, Republic of South Africa. The emergence of African involvement in industrial enterprise during the 1930s and 1940s is documented. Three spheres of African entrepreneurship were particularly important on the Witwatersrand, namely, furniture manufacture, artisanal crafts, and brewing. Because of competitive threats which African small-scale industry posed to State and private sector interests, there crystallized a deliberate policy of underdevelopment implemented to destroy this sphere of small-scale industrial production. However, under the imperatives of a changing reform strategy of apartheid, the State reversed its former policy and began in the 1980s a programme of seeking to upgrade and promote the development of African small-scale industrial enterprise in South African urban areas. Ref.
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