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Labour market and spatial mismatch in Cape Town
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 53-54).
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2014
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| author | Mazile, One |
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| spelling | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/8948 Labour market and spatial mismatch in Cape Town Mazile, One Crankshaw, Owen Workplace Change and Labour Law Includes bibliographical references (leaves 53-54). The paper undertakes to research a spatial and skills mismatch in the city of Cape Town. The argument is that industry is moving towards the north of the city and away from areas of the south east. This physically displaces low and semi-skilled employees or potential employees who work or seek work in these firms. Areas of the south east are typically inhabited by low and semi-skilled workers who are forced to seek work away from where they live. This is because their areas are economically inactive and do not offer much prospects for development or employment in the current situation. We find that prospective employees or those already employed have to endure lengthy and expensive commutes to work on a daily basis. The city transport system, which includes bus, train and taxis, seems to be still largely inefficient and does not serve these employees well, or is not readily accessible in all the areas it is needed. The research was conducted in the industrial areas of Montague Gardens, Blackheath, Paarden Island, Epping Industria, Airport Industria and Phillipi. These areas were chosen because being industrial areas they would typically have a large number of low to semiskilled workers employed in their firms. Unlike professional or service related firms who would typically employ more qualified or educated (in terms of tertiary qualifications) workers. An interview schedule was prepared and we went to these areas and interviewed which ever firms agreed to it. The firms in the area were chosen in no specific way, we literally went for door to door asking for participants. The research was qualitative in nature, the interview questions were detailed and in depth (see appendices for actual schedule) and lasted for about 20m ins depending on the amount of time the interviewees were willing to spare. The results were analysed by comparing the reasons for relocating amongst each firm, the aim was to try and decipher what were the driving factors of this spatial shift and what implications it had for employees who had to endure these commutes. The significant findings are that the relocation or the move towards the north is driven by the availability of land or space and price. The north seems to offer more affordable premises and much more land, thus more value for money. There are adequate parking and storage facilities. Firms hardly considered workers in their search for new locations. Further south east employees are not left out of potential employment because of their physical distance from these economic nodes, most employees have managed to organise themselves and get to work, even with an unbalanced transport system. 2014-10-30T13:46:28Z 2014-10-30T13:46:28Z 2009 Master Thesis Masters MPhil http://hdl.handle.net/11427/8948 eng application/pdf Department of Social Development Faculty of Humanities University of Cape Town |
| spellingShingle | Workplace Change and Labour Law Mazile, One Labour market and spatial mismatch in Cape Town |
| thesis_degree_str | Master's |
| title | Labour market and spatial mismatch in Cape Town |
| title_full | Labour market and spatial mismatch in Cape Town |
| title_fullStr | Labour market and spatial mismatch in Cape Town |
| title_full_unstemmed | Labour market and spatial mismatch in Cape Town |
| title_short | Labour market and spatial mismatch in Cape Town |
| title_sort | labour market and spatial mismatch in cape town |
| topic | Workplace Change and Labour Law |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/8948 |
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