Inclusive Dualism: Labour-Intensive Development, Decent Work, and Surplus Labour in Southern Africa

by Nicoli Nattrass and Jeremy Seekings

W. Arthur Lewis, the founding father of development economics, proposed a dualist model of economic development in which 'surplus' (predominantly under-employed) labour shifted from lower to higher productivity work. In practice, historically, this meant that labour was initially drawn out of subsistence agriculture into low-wage, labour-intensive manufacturing, including in clothing production, before shifting into higher-wage work. This development...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198841469
• ISBN13: 9780198841463
• Release Date: July 2019
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 230 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.3"