Industrialisation in the periphery: Southern Rhodesian and South African trade relations between the wars
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1986-07-28
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Phimister, Ian
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Abstract
Over the last two decades the process of industrialisation
in Africa has generated considerable scholarly interest and debate.
While much of the interest flows from industry's acknowledged potential
as ‘the main lever of African development’, most of the debate
concerns the reasons for its generally poor performance. Broadly
speaking, opinion is divided between those writers who emphasize
the 'major external constraints limiting industrialization', and others
who analyse industrialisation in terms of ‘'internal forces [which]
help or hinder it’. To date, these issues have been most exhaustively
explored in the ‘Kenya Debate’ By comparison, analysis of Zimbabwe's
much larger industrial sector has lagged far behind. Although
developments since 1965, particularly the role and significance of
foreign capital, have been studied, neither the origins nor the nature
of Zimbabwean industrialisation have received much attention. In
seeking to open these topics for discussion, this paper argues that
the growth of local secondary industry was crucially conditioned
by the interwar pattern of Southern Rhodesia's trade relations with
South Africa.
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African Studies Seminar series. Paper presented 28 July 1986
Keywords
Industries. Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe. Commerce. South Africa, South Africa. Commerce. Zimbabwe