Social polarisation and migration to Gauteng

SOURCE: HSRC Review
OUTPUT TYPE: Journal Article
PUBLICATION YEAR: 2013
TITLE AUTHOR(S): J.Borel-Saladin
KEYWORDS: GAUTENG PROVINCE, MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY, MIGRATION
Web link: http://www.hsrc.ac.za/en/review/hsrc-review-november-2013/migration--to-gauteng
Intranet: HSRC Library: shelf number 7971
HANDLE: 20.500.11910/2743
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/2743

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Abstract

The manufacturing sector, once a major source of urban employment and consisting of a large percentage of skilled and semi-skilled, middle-income jobs, has declined, while the service sector, predominantly comprising either high-skill, high-pay or low-skill, low-pay jobs, has grown. Jacqueline Borel-Saladin argues that the decline of manufacturing and the growth of the service sector does not result in a more polarised occupational structure.