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Inclusive Dualism : Labour-intensive Development, Decent Work, and Surplus Labour in Southern Africa, PDF eBook

Inclusive Dualism : Labour-intensive Development, Decent Work, and Surplus Labour in Southern Africa PDF

Part of the Critical Frontiers of Theory, Research, and Policy in International Development Studies series

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W. Arthur Lewis, the founding father of development economics, proposed a dualist model of economic development in which 'surplus' (predominantly under-employed) labour shifted from lower to higher productivity work.

In practice, historically, this meant that labour was initially drawn out of subsistence agriculture into low-wage, labour-intensive manufacturing, including in clothing production, before shifting into higher-wage work.

This development strategy hasbecome unfashionable. The International Labour Organisation (ILO) worries that low-wage, labour-intensive industry promises little more than an impoverishing 'race to the bottom'.

Inclusive Dualism: Labour-intensive Development, Decent Work, and Surplus Labour in Southern Africa argues that decent workfundamentalism, that is the promotion of higher wages and labour productivity at the cost of lower-wage job destruction, is a utopian vision with potentially dystopic consequences for countries with high open unemployment, many of which are in Southern Africa. Using the South African clothing industry as a case study Inclusive Dualism argues that decent work fundamentalism ignores the inherently differentiated character of industry resulting in the unnecessary destruction of labour-intensive jobs and the bifurcation of society into highly-paid, high-productivity insiders and low-paid or unemployed outsiders.

It demonstrates the broader relevance of the South Africa case, examining the growth in surplus labour across Africa.

It shows thatlow- and high-productivity firms can co-exist, and challenges the notion that a race to the bottom is inevitable.

Inclusive Dualism instead favours multi-pronged development strategies that prioritise labour-intensive job creation as well as facilitating productivity growth elsewhere without destroyingjobs.

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