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Informalisation and the Reconfiguration of Labour Relations in the Durban Clothing Industry

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The volume, "Clothing and Footwear in African Industrialisation" explores the reasons for African countries' disappointing industrial progress so far, by exploring the premise that two industries - clothing and footwear - offer excellent starter opportunities for baseline industrial growth. Garments and footwear are low-tech industries in so far that use stable, well-diffused technology. They generate only low-level research and development needs, require only basic skills, and operate on low economies of scale, whilst having the capacity to absorb large numbers of semi-skilled workers and make extensive use of local resources. Additionally they offer considerable export potential. This collection of papers focuses on the changing role and potential of the clothing and footwear sectors in industrialisation in Africa. The examples elucidated are the clothing and footwear sectors in Ethiopia, Kenya, South Africa and Tanzania. Taken together, these four countries provide a representative cross sector of African countries and present a range of different issues relating to the continent's clothing and footwear economy. More generally, the volume seeks to contribute to a greater appreciation of the impacts of globalisation on industrial development trajectories. WIEGO's Caroline Skinner and Imraan Valodia contribute a chapter on, "Informalisation and the Reconfiguration of Labour Relations in the Durban Clothing Industry".

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Valodia, Imraan, and Skinner, Caroline. Informalisation and the Reconfiguration of Labour Relations in the Durban Clothing Industry. Clothing and Footwear in African Industrialization, , . Africa Institute of South Africa, 2004. Valodia, I., and Skinner, C. (2004). Informalisation and the Reconfiguration of Labour Relations in the Durban Clothing Industry. Clothing and Footwear in African Industrialization, , . Valodia, Imraan, and Skinner, Caroline. "Informalisation and the Reconfiguration of Labour Relations in the Durban Clothing Industry." Clothing and Footwear in African Industrialization, Africa Institute of South Africa, 2004, .Valodia Imraan, and Skinner Caroline. "Informalisation and the Reconfiguration of Labour Relations in the Durban Clothing Industry." Clothing and Footwear in African Industrialization (2004). Valodia, I, and Skinner, C 2004, 'Informalisation and the Reconfiguration of Labour Relations in the Durban Clothing Industry', Clothing and Footwear in African Industrialization, . Imraan Valodia, and Caroline Skinner, 'Informalisation and the Reconfiguration of Labour Relations in the Durban Clothing Industry' (2004) Clothing and Footwear in African Industrialization Valodia I., and Skinner C. Informalisation and the Reconfiguration of Labour Relations in the Durban Clothing Industry. Clothing and Footwear in African Industrialization. 2004. Valodia, Imraan, and Skinner, Caroline. Informalisation and the Reconfiguration of Labour Relations in the Durban Clothing Industry. Clothing and Footwear in African Industrialization. 2004. , .

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