Caught in Neutral Labour, Global Production Networks and the Green Transition in South Africa's Auto Industry
Date: 23 October 2026 | Posted by: BeMyLove
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Title: Caught in Neutral Labour, Global Production Networks and the Green Transition in South Africa's Auto Industry
Author: Alex Mohubetswane Mashilo
Category: Labor, Industries
Language: English | 316 Pages | ISBN: 9781997461173
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In this incisive and timely book, Alex M Mashilo – an experienced automotive technician and trade-union stalwart – dissects the intersection of global geopolitics, industrial policy, economic upgrading, and the contested just transition in South Africa's automotive sector. Economic upgrading, orchestrated by multinational corporations from the Global North, relentlessly optimises profit through process innovation and market capture inside global production networks. Social upgrading – improving workers' wages, conditions, and lives – does not automatically follow. Mashilo demonstrates that without strategic action, economic gains remain captured by capital while workers and communities bear the costs of restructuring and decarbonisation. Caught in Neutral exposes the incoherence of South African industrial policy, showing how policy vacillation has undermined a worker-centred just transition. Yet it also identifies a strategic opening: transport as the...
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