Temporary Labour Migration: A Process of Wealth Formation in the Indigenous Economies of Southern Africa

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Title:	Temporary Labour Migration: A Process of Wealth Formation in the Indigenous Economies of Southern Africa
Author:	Rutman, Gilbert L.
Year:	1974
Periodical:	South African Journal of African Affairs
Volume:	4
Issue:	2
Pages:	24-32
Language:	English
Geographic term:	Southern Africa
Subjects:	labour migration subsistence economy Urbanization and Migration Labor and Employment Economics and Trade Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups)
Abstract:	The critical development problem in Southern Africa is still the slow rate of economic growth of the indigenous economies. Why has the level of organization of economic activity in traditional agriculture, the major depository of African capital and labour, remained relatively unaffected by technological progress and market demand in the modern economy? This paper examines the effects of temporary labour migration on the economic organization of the indigenous economy in Southern Africa. The author points out that 1. temporary labour migration has not had much of a modernizing effect on.