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Periodical article Periodical article Leiden University catalogue Leiden University catalogue WorldCat catalogue WorldCat
Title:The Political Economy of South Africa in the Interwar Period
Authors:Fine, Ben
Rustomjee, ZavarehISNI
Year:1992
Periodical:Social Dynamics
Volume:18
Issue:2
Period:December
Pages:26-54
Language:English
Geographic term:South Africa
Subjects:economic policy
history
1910-1919
1920-1929
1930-1939
Politics and Government
Economics and Trade
History and Exploration
External link:https://doi.org/10.1080/02533959208458532
Abstract:Economic policy in South Africa in the interwar period is discussed in the context of differences between the economic power and political influence of Afrikaner as opposed to mining capital. Previous analyses have been limited by methodologies which have overemphasized class agencies at the expense of actual and potential economic linkages. State economic interventions are shown to have differed in influence and in impact by area of application. No coherent policy was followed for the development of industry based on agricultural products. Instead, policies were subordinated to devolving central power to fragmented agricultural interests. Industrial policy is shown to have been confined to protection, other forms of subsidy and the creation of a State sector around heavy industry rather than being linked to a strategy of diversification out of the base provided by the activities associated with mining. Despite this lack of a conducive framework, preliminary research reveals that constrained industrial diversification did occur in isolated cases, including chemical and industrial diamond products, suggesting that other development trajectories were possible. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum.
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