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| Title: | De-Industrialisation, Multiple Livelihoods and Identity: Tracking Social Change in Qwaqwa, South Africa |
| Author: | Slater, Rachel |
| Year: | 2001 |
| Periodical: | Journal of Contemporary African Studies |
| Volume: | 19 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Period: | January |
| Pages: | 81-92 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic terms: | South Africa Qwaqwa |
| Subjects: | rural-urban relations employment urban areas industrial development Development and Technology Economics and Trade Politics and Government Labor and Employment Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) |
| External links: | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02589000125025 http://ejournals.ebsco.com/direct.asp?ArticleID=PLXKU88KD59J80FQFNHP |
| Abstract: | In assessing job losses in the South African economy over the past few years, media attention has almost exclusively centred on developments in the large cities. By contrast, very little attention has been given to conditions in the former 'homelands' where the bulk of South Africa's new industrial employment was created since the 1980s, and where tens of thousands of jobs have been lost in the 1990s. This paper explores the implications of de-industrialization for the livelihood strategies in the former homeland town of Phuthaditjhaba in Qwaqwa in the northeastern Free State. The study is based on research carried out in Qwaqwa between August 1998 and August 1999. The paper argues that macrolevel changes have encouraged an accelerated shift towards multiple livelihood strategies at the micro level, and that these changes have increased local mobility and eroded the urban-rural dichotomy in Qwaqwa. 'The urban' and 'the rural' have become increasingly intertwined and this has created new possibilities for social differentiation and identity formation. Bibliogr., notes, ref. |
