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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. |