The Political Economy Of South Africa: From Minerals-energy Complex To Industrialisation

Abstract

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- FIGURES -- TABLES -- Abbreviations -- Preface -- 1. Introduction and Overview -- Part I. LINKAGES, AGENCIES AND THE STATE -- 2. Asian Miracles: Lessons for South Africa -- Linkages and agencies -- — Linkages -- — Agencies -- 3. The Role of the State -- The South African state and the state of South Africa -- Part II. THE MINERALS-ENERGY COMPLEX -- 4. The Boundaries of the MEC -- Mining and manufacturing in the South African economy -- The MEC and manufacturing -- The MEC as a system of accumulation -- Appendix A ISIC manufacturing categories -- Appendix B Notes on statistical sources -- 5. Corporate Structure -- Corporate structure and the MEC -- State and private ownership and the MEC -- Large-scale capital and anti-monopoly regulation -- Part III. THE SOUTH AFRICAN FORM OF INDUSTRIALISATION -- 6. The Political Economy of the Inter-War Period -- Hegemony of conflict and compromise -- Industrial intervention -- 7. Post-war Industrialisation -- Eroding disjunctures — the development of Afrikaner capital -- — Afrikaner capital in the 1950s -- — Eroding disjunctures in electricity, coal mining, chemical and fuel industries -- The interpenetration of English and Afrikaner capital in the 1960s -- MEC expansion in the 1970s -- Post-1980 paradoxes of the MEC -- — Paradoxes of the financial sector -- — Paradoxes of the manufacturing sector -- Institutional paradoxes -- 8. Post-war Industrial Policy -- State corporations in the 1950s -- Tariffs as industrial policy -- Decentralisation as industrial policy -- Small-scale industry -- Promoting the MEC — from Reynders onwards -- Industrial policy in the 1980s — the Kleu Report -- Industrial policy into the 1980s — the demise of the BTI -- 9. Debating Industrialisation and Industrial Policy -- Perceptions of industrial performance