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Title:Transnationals, Industrialization and Black Consciousness: Change in South Africa
Author:Samoff, Joel
Year:1978
Periodical:Journal of Southern African Affairs
Volume:3
Issue:4
Period:October
Pages:489-520
Language:English
Geographic term:South Africa
Subjects:industrial development
black consciousness
international relations
Development and Technology
Ethnic and Race Relations
Labor and Employment
Abstract:This essay has two interrelated goals: 1) to comment on how to make sense of change in South Africa; 2) to paint a broad outline. in terms of that comment on approach and methodology, about what is happening in South Africa. Focus is on four major currents in the political economy of South Africa in the context of the increasing dominance of industrial captial, Sections: The setting - Mercantile capitalism (1652-early 1820s) - Agricultural export capital is (early 1820s-late 1860s) - Mining capitalism (late 1860s-1920) - Industrial capitalism (1920s-) - White coalition (1924-1948) - Afrikaner state capitalism (1948-) - Tensions and currents - Semi-periphery - Consolidation of monopoly capital and US hegemony - South African expansion into Africa - Liberation. not decolonization - Black consciousness - The interaction of setting, tensions, and currents. Ref., notes.
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