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Title: | Labor in South Africa |
Author: | Anonymous |
Year: | 1970 |
Periodical: | Africa Today |
Volume: | 17 |
Issue: | 5 |
Period: | September-October |
Pages: | 8-14 |
Language: | English |
Geographic terms: | South Africa United States |
Subjects: | trading companies black workers Labor and Employment |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/i388960 |
Abstract: | United States corporations have, over the years taken advantage of the apartheid structure in South Africa which has supplied their operations with a large, controlled, cheap labor supply. Their argument was that they, as foreign investors, must obey the law of the host country, and that their presence served to liberalize the apartheid system and raised the standard of living, thus benefitting the African population. In fact there is no evidence that United States corporate presence has liberalized any facet of apartheid; on the contrary, both in word and deed U.S. investors have steadfastly implemented the laws of the land as they stand. This article reviews the legal and socio-economic position of African labor in South Africa: U.S. firms and apartheid labor - The Bantu Laws Amendment Bill - The urban population explosion - Labor shortage, - Border industry - Progress in the development of border industries - Wages - Urban; incomes - Homelands incomes - Workers' struggle. Notes, tables, chart, map. |