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Title: | African participation in the wage-economy and the task of responsible companies |
Author: | Knight, J.B. |
Year: | 1975 |
Periodical: | Rhodesian Journal of Economics |
Volume: | 9 |
Issue: | 1 |
Pages: | 47-56 |
Language: | English |
Geographic terms: | Zimbabwe South Africa |
Subjects: | black workers working conditions |
Abstract: | Having a limited knowledge of the Rhodesian economy, the author does not examine the Rhodesian case directly but in the context of his knowledge of labour markets in certain African countries north of the Zambezi, and also of labour markets south of the Limpopo. The comparisons with countries to the north and to the south may provide some valuable insights and inferences for the Rhodesian case. Economically, Rhodesia lies somewhere in between, politically, the future seems to indicate a transfer of power in the direction of that prevailing in some African countries to the North. The task of responsible companies in Matters of African employment is closely bound up both with the country's level of economic development and with the political system within which the economy operates. The author concentrates, using the Report of a Select Committee of the British House of Commons on wages and conditions of employment of African workers employed by British companies in South Africa (1974) as frame-work, on two issues: the level of unskilled wages and the structure of earnings. Note. |