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NALSU Labour Studies Podcast: Andrew Murray, "Why has South Africa's Industrial Policy Failed to Halt Deindustrialisation and Transform the Economy? Labour Studies Podcasts
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SPEAKER: Andrew Murray, "Why has South Africa's Industrial Policy Failed to Halt Deindustrialisation and Transform the Economy?"
TOPIC: This Lecture examines the evolution of industrial policy in South Africa, and what can be done to save the manufacturing sector. Manufacturing has fallen from 19.3% of GDP in 1994 to just 11.8% in 2019, costing hundreds of thousands of jobs. Employment in textiles, leather products, footwear and clothing fell 50% from 2000 to 2019. The remnants of these former mainstays of the Eastern Cape are rustbelts, gutted factories and stranded working-classes. Factories had been built within the framework of import-substitution, but were not globally competitive; the country remained dependent on raw material exports. With the neo-liberal turn in the 1990s, protective tariffs fell from 28% in 1990 to 8.2% in 15 years. Factories and jobs were washed away by cheap imports.
Andrew Murray focuses on the policies that were intended to revive local industry from the 2000s, starting with the National Industrial Policy Framework (NIPF) and the Industrial Policy Action Plans (IPAPs), and moving into the more recent Reimagined Industrial Strategy and sector masterplans. Looking especially at the Eastern Cape, he evaluates these policies and examines the impact of state capacity. The Lecture closes with a consideration of what needs to be done to build a coordinated and technically capable state that can build a future fit economy, and negotiate reciprocal conditionalities and trade-offs with the private sector and other stakeholders.
DETAILS: This is a recording of a live event in the Neil Aggett Labour Studies Unit (NALSU) Labour Studies Seminar Series, held on Tuesday, 14 November 2023, at Graham Hotel, Makhanda, South Africa.
ABOUT NALSU: Based in the Eastern Cape, South Africa, is engaged in policy, research and workers' education. Built around a vibrant team from disciplines including Sociology and Economics & Economic History, it has active partnerships and relations with a range of advocacy, labour and research organisations. It draws strength from its location in a province where the legacy of apartheid and the cheap labour system, and the contradictions of the post-apartheid state, are keenly felt. We are named in honour of Dr Neil Hudson Aggett, a union organiser and medical doctor who died in 1982 in an apartheid jail after enduring brutality and torture.
MORE: https://www.ru.ac.za/nalsu
SPEAKER: Andrew Murray, "Why has South Africa's Industrial Policy Failed to Halt Deindustrialisation and Transform the Economy?"
TOPIC: This Lecture examines the evolution of industrial policy in South Africa, and what can be done to save the manufacturing sector. Manufacturing has fallen from 19.3% of GDP in 1994 to just 11.8% in 2019, costing hundreds of thousands of jobs. Employment in textiles, leather products, footwear and clothing fell 50% from 2000 to 2019. The remnants of these former mainstays of the Eastern Cape are rustbelts, gutted factories and stranded working-classes. Factories had been built within the framework of import-substitution, but were not globally competitive; the country remained dependent on raw material exports. With the neo-liberal turn in the 1990s, protective tariffs fell from 28% in 1990 to 8.2% in 15 years. Factories and jobs were washed away by cheap imports.
Andrew Murray focuses on the policies that were intended to revive local industry from the 2000s, starting with the National Industrial Policy Framework (NIPF) and the Industrial Policy Action Plans (IPAPs), and moving into the more recent Reimagined Industrial Strategy and sector masterplans. Looking especially at the Eastern Cape, he evaluates these policies and examines the impact of state capacity. The Lecture closes with a consideration of what needs to be done to build a coordinated and technically capable state that can build a future fit economy, and negotiate reciprocal conditionalities and trade-offs with the private sector and other stakeholders.
DETAILS: This is a recording of a live event in the Neil Aggett Labour Studies Unit (NALSU) Labour Studies Seminar Series, held on Tuesday, 14 November 2023, at Graham Hotel, Makhanda, South Africa.
ABOUT NALSU: Based in the Eastern Cape, South Africa, is engaged in policy, research and workers' education. Built around a vibrant team from disciplines including Sociology and Economics & Economic History, it has active partnerships and relations with a range of advocacy, labour and research organisations. It draws strength from its location in a province where the legacy of apartheid and the cheap labour system, and the contradictions of the post-apartheid state, are keenly felt. We are named in honour of Dr Neil Hudson Aggett, a union organiser and medical doctor who died in 1982 in an apartheid jail after enduring brutality and torture.
MORE: https://www.ru.ac.za/nalsu
1 hr 43 min