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Informationen zum Autor Bill Freund is Professor Emeritus of Built Environment and Development Studies at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, and Visiting Professor at the University of Witwatersrand, South Africa. His previous books include The African Worker (Cambridge, 1988), The African City: A History (Cambridge, 2007) and The Making of Contemporary Africa (2016). Klappentext This unique history highlights South Africa's complex and dynamic attempt to build a developmental state; an attempt that ultimately faltered. Zusammenfassung Focussing on South Africa's drive for modernisation and industrialisation throughout the twentieth century, Bill Freund shows that the country can actually be viewed as a 'developmental state'. This unique history further marries the economic indicators with social history in order to bring the economic data alive with people and places. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Twentieth-century South Africa: a developmental history; 2. The conflicted foundations of industrial policy; 3. Industrial development in South Africa up to World War II - some figures and some business history; 4. A (near) developmental state forms 1939-48; 5. The impact of Apartheid 1948-73; 6. The Parastatals ISCOR and SASOL; 7. Key institutions: the IDC, the CSIR, the HSRC; 8. The company towns of the Vaal Triangle; 9. Energy and the natural environment; 10. Developmentalism dismantled.
