By Owen Crankshaw
Because the basically entire empirical research of the altering racial and occupational constitution of the city staff in South Africa below apartheid, this examine will make a useful contribution to our realizing of the advanced inter-relations of previous and current racial inequality and financial improvement in South Africa.
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The extent to which routine white-collar workers were more racially integrated and enjoyed greater racial equality in the workplace is reflected by a number of characteristics. 4). Second, the supervision of whites by blacks was much more likely to take place in an office environment than in a factory. 23 These results suggest that the racial hierarchy in supervisory and routine white-collar occupations in offices is not as rigid as it is among supervisors, artisans and machine operatives who are employed in factories.
Second, the supervision of whites by blacks was much more likely to take place in an office environment than in a factory. 23 These results suggest that the racial hierarchy in supervisory and routine white-collar occupations in offices is not as rigid as it is among supervisors, artisans and machine operatives who are employed in factories. This finding is therefore consistent with the results of the Manpower Survey which indicate that the degree of racial integration in routine white-collar employment is far greater than in the skilled trades.
Generally, the mechanisation of production resulted in the expansion of semi-skilled employment at the expense of unskilled manual employment. This was achieved through the increasingly widespread use of mechanised production methods and the fragmentation of the skilled trades into semi-skilled occupations which enabled employers to use African labour in a wide range of semi-skilled jobs. This led to the 43 CAPITALIST INTERESTS AND LABOUR POLICY emergence of a new occupational and racial division of labour in which white workers were concentrated in the skilled trades and African workers were increasingly employed in semi-skilled and machine operative jobs.