Industrialism and Race in South Africa

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The emergence in South Africa of an advanced industrial economy has provided the basis for the propositions which have become central to much of the analysis of that society. 'The most outstanding observation that is forced upon us by empirical evidence is that the apparatus and operations introduced by industrialization almost invariably adjust and conform to the pattern of race relations in the given society.' Racial stratification in South Africa may assist the process of integration, if integration is conceived as involving the precise interweaving of the parts into a functioning whole. Control over the movement of Africans, the systems of influx and efflux control and of Labour bureaux, permits, in theory, the exact integration of African labour into the economy. The inadequacy of the contention that there is a contradiction between the economy and the racial polity is revealed, above all, by the critical importance of low-cost black labour to the rational conduct of the South African economy.

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