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Title: | The decline of manufacturing in inner-city Johannesburg 1980-1994 |
Authors: | Rogerson, C.M. Rogerson, J.M. |
Year: | 1995 |
Periodical: | Urban Forum |
Volume: | 6 |
Issue: | 1 |
Pages: | 17-42 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | South Africa |
Subjects: | urban economy industrial development |
External link: | https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF03036692 |
Abstract: | Not until the 1990s did the issue of the economic demise of South Africa's inner cities prompt growing public and policy concern and, so far, little detailed research has been conducted in South Africa on the economy of the inner cities generally and of the manufacturing sector in particular. The present paper addresses this void by analysing the patterns of formal sector industrial activity and manufacturing change in the inner city of Johannesburg between 1980 and 1994. The specific aims are twofold. First, it provides a detailed description of the contemporary manufacturing economy of the Johannesburg inner city, identifying the major sectors of industry (printing and publishing, clothing, jewellery and diamond cutting, fabricated metals, textiles and food), the spatial patterns of activities and the size and structure of the inner-city manufacturing economy. Second, it examines manufacturing change in the Johannesburg inner city since 1980. The focus is upon shifts occurring in terms of different sectors of activity and different size structures of manufacturing establishments. An attempt is made to isolate the key elements of change in terms of patterns of industrial births, deaths and relocations of production. Bibliogr. |