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Labour, Global Production Networks and the Green Transition in South Africa's Auto Industry
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Analysis of South Africa's automotive industry within global production networks, critiquing inconsistent industrial policies and highlighting worker's agency in shaping equitable labor conditions, and a just transition to electric vehicles.
Alex Mohubetswane Mashilo is Visiting Researcher in the Southern Centre for Inequality Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. Imraan Valodia is Professor of Economics, Pro Vice-Chancellor: Climate, Sustainability and Inequality, and Director of the Southern Centre for Inequality Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.
Foreword by Imraan Valodia Acknowledgements Acronyms and abbreviations Chapter 1: Climate change, upgrading and global production networks Chapter 2: Upgrading, global production networks and worker power Chapter 3: South Africa's automotive industrial policy, 1910 to mid-2021 Chapter 4: Busting the social upgrading trickle-down myth Chapter 5: Struggling for upgrading from a disadvantaged power position Chapter 6: The automotive masterplan 2035: Upgrading in sunset production? Chapter 7: Contested transition to low- and zero-greenhouse gas-emitting vehicles Chapter 8: Where to next? Notes References Index
Analysis of South Africa's automotive industry within global production networks, critiquing inconsistent industrial policies and highlighting workers' agency in shaping a just transition in this sector.
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