Political Economy of Modern South Africa

Alf Stadler was Professor of Politics at the University of Witwatersrand, South Africa.

• 1. Revolution, Reform and Repression in the 1970s and 1980s: The Quickening Rhythm 2. National, Regional and International Bases of the Apartheid State 3. The Political Economy of Industrial South Africa 4. White Power in the Twentieth Century: From Party Government to Bonapartist Rule 5. The Logic of Labour Coercion: Influx Control and Political Domination 6. Of Uncivil Government: The Administration of Urban Black South Africa 7. Race and the Allocation of Urban Space: Segregation and Apartheid in the Cities 8. Apartheid in the Countryside: Politics and Government in the Homelands and National States 9. Movement and Organisation in the Politics of the Underclasses 10. Revolution and Reform: The Emergent Forces.

‘…an unusually stimulating contribution to our understanding both of what significant historical factors led to the South African apartheid political economy and the salient features of the contradictions in the system.’ Alexander Arthur, Tennessee University, USA.