Does Deindustrialisation Cause Social Polarisation in Global Cities
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4138670 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Owen Crankshaw (0000-0002-9006-5005, University of Cape Town, corresponding author), Jacqueline Borel-Saladin (0000-0003-3060-9127, University of Cape Town, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 46 |
| Issue | 8 |
| Pages | 1852-1872 |
| Publication date | 2014-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Environment and Planning A Economy and Space (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0308-518X • E-ISSN: 1472-3409 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1068/a130018p |
| OpenAlex | W1993998537 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 38 |
The social polarisation hypothesis argues that deindustrialisation causes the polarisation of the occupational structure, which in turn causes the income polarisation of the employed workforce of global cities. A central argument is that social polarisation occurs because the service sector is more polarised in occupational and income terms than the manufacturing sector that it replaces. However, the results of many studies suggest that deindustrialisation has not resulted in social polarisation. Instead, deindustrialisation has produced a professionalised occupational structure alongside high levels of unemployment. The results of this study of the Johannesburg region confirm that deindustrialisation results in professionalisation rather than polarisation. We then proceed to examine this outcome by analysing the statistical relationship between economic restructuring and the changing occupational structure. Our results suggest that changes in the overall occupational structure were caused by changes within each economic sector rather than by the growth of service sector employment and the decline of manufacturing sector employment
Demographic economics · Economic growth · Economic restructuring · Economics · Economy · Labour economics · Restructuring · Tertiary sector of the economy · Unemployment · Workforce · Global Urban Networks and Dynamics · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Urban Planning and Governance
De-industrialisation in the world’s factory
Global city development and urban wage inequality in China
A different perspective on post-industrial labor market restructuring in Detroit and Pittsburgh
Measuring Trends in Urban Inequality and Poverty in the Copperbelt, Zambia
Social polarization in global cities
Deindustrialization and racial inequality
Precarious Class Formations in the United States and South Africa
The changing social structure of global cities
Resurgent cities and the socioeconomic divide
Capitalism and apartheid
Divided Sisterhood
The Global City
Class, Race, and Inequality in South Africa
Testing a Global City Hypothesis
A South African Variety of Capitalism
A roster of world cities
The Post-Fordist High Road? A South African Case Study
Immigration, Gender and the Process of Occupational Change in the United States, 1970–80
Social Polarisation, Economic Restructuring and Welfare State Regimes
Social Polarisation in Global Cities
Social Polarisation or Professionalisation? Another Look at Theory and Evidence on Deindustrialisation and the Rise of the Service Sector
Sydney, Australia
Social Transformations in the Global City
Testing the Global City-Social Polarisation Thesis
Race, Space and the Post-Fordist Spatial Order of Johannesburg
The changing socio-economic structure of London and the South East, 1961–1981
The Transformation of the U.S. Labor Force
Method in Social Science
Deindustrialization, Professionalization and Racial Inequality in Cape Town
World cities and territorial states under conditions of contemporary globalization
Proletarianization in the British Class Structure
World city formation
Capital restructuring and the modification of the racial division of labour in South Africa
Shifting Classes
Changing Ladders and Musical Chairs
Proletarianization in the Changing American Class Structure
The Transformation of the American Class Structure, 1960-1980
| Unique citing works | 9 |
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| Citations per year | 0,9 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2022 (7) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |