Industrialisation and Workforce Development in Africa - Policy Dynamics, Firms, and Industrial Ecosystems

This book explores the dynamics and challenges of building an industrial workforce and industrialisation in Africa. It highlights the potential for economic growth within the manufacturing sector and how industrialisation can provide employment, build industrial workforce and facilitate labour market opportunities. Government policies and the role of local and regional governments are analysed to examine why certain industrial parks perform better than others. With particular details drawn from Ethiopia's apparel and textile industry, the historical relationship between capitalist development and the labour force is explored to show tensions between maximising profits and ensuring labour rights and better wages. Building an industrial workforce necessitates effective government policies, firm strategies, industrial ecosystems, and productive dialogue and collective learning between government and firms.

List of contents

1. Introduction.- 2. Theoretical perspectives on late industrialisation and industrial workforce.- 3. Analytical perspective and research approach.- 4. FDI patterns, employment and workforce development.- 5. Recruitment, community, and retention.- 6. Government policies, firms and industrial ecosystems.- 7. A synthesis of industrial capitalism and workforce development.- 8. Workforce development and late industrialisation.

About the author

Dr Nigisty Gebrechristos is a Research Associate at the Centre of African Studies, SOAS University of London, and the University of Johannesburg.
 

Product details

• Authors: Nigisty Gebrechristos
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2025
• EAN: 9783031760549
• ISBN: 978-3-0-3176054-9
• No. of pages: 362
• Illustrations: XXX, 362 p. 12 illus.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in African and Development Economics
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics; Wirtschaftswissenschaft, Afrika, Industrielle Organisation, Arbeits- / Einkommensökonomie, Industrialisation, Industrial Organization, Industrial Policy, Development Economics, African Economics, Labor Economics, Textile industry, Government intervention, FDI firms, Africa’s economic transformation, Structural transformation in Africa, Industrial workforce, Economic development in Africa, Industrial labour force, Firm behaviour