Caught in Neutral

Labour, Global Production Networks and the Green Transition in South Africa's Auto Industry

AvAlex Mohubetswane Mashilo

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum:2026-09-01
Mått:152 x 229 x undefined mm
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:272
Förlag:Wits University Press
ISBN:9781997461142

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Mikroekonomi inom Ekonomi och Ledarskap
Tillverkningsindustri inom Ekonomi och Ledarskap
Arbetsmarknaden inom Ekonomi och Ledarskap

Mer om författaren

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.

Innehållsförteckning

Foreword by Imraan ValodiaAcknowledgementsAcronyms and abbreviationsChapter 1: Climate change, upgrading and global production networksChapter 2: Upgrading, global production networks and worker powerChapter 3: South Africa’s automotive industrial policy, 1910 to mid-2021Chapter 4: Busting the social upgrading trickle-down mythChapter 5: Struggling for upgrading from a disadvantaged power positionChapter 6: The automotive masterplan 2035: Upgrading in sunset production?Chapter 7: Contested transition to low- and zero-greenhouse gas-emitting vehiclesChapter 8: Where to next?NotesReferencesIndex

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