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Surveys of decentralised industrialists (Todes & Watson, Addleson et al., Tomlinson, Krieg)

Literature › Primary sources

Kind author survey or fieldwork
Producer Various university researchers
Coverage 1982-1985
Works using it 2

Debates

Debate Works
Homelands, separate development, decentralisation and removals 2

Works using this source

Work As cited Period How used
Todes and Watson (1984) Postal survey of industrialists in 13 growth centres, April 1983 (Todes and Watson) April 1983 Primary evidence on propulsive industries, input/output linkages, firm status, services, labour, incentive dependence, skills, wages, social infrastructure.
Tomlinson and Addleson (1986) Addleson, Pretorius and Tomlinson (1985) survey of industrialists who decentralized to the homelands c.1984-1985 Supplies survey evidence that government incentives were the main location motive, challenging Bell's ranking of forces.
Tomlinson and Addleson (1986) Krieg (1985) survey of PWV-based industrialists 1985 Suggests firms deliberately breached Section 3 restrictions, raising doubt about reported employment data.
Tomlinson and Addleson (1986) Tomlinson (1986) Ciskei data (MBA research report) 1982-1985 Shows the number of Ciskei industries growing from 33 to about 100 between June 1982 and December 1985.