%0 Journal Article
%T Sour grapes
%A J Theron
%J Law, Democracy & Development
%D 2010
%I University of the Western Cape
%X Employment creation is a national priority, and it is often said that agriculture is a sector in which jobs should be created. This has not happened. A study of employment in the Hex River Valley confirms this. Although the area under cultivation expanded by half, the number of jobs had fallen by 30 percent over a thirty-year period. How, then, are the job statistics reconciled with burgeoning informal settlements? The most plausible explanation seemed to be a growth of indirect employment. The primary aim of this study was to investigate whether there had indeed been a growth of indirect employment, and to what extent this was attributable to the labour law regime, as well as its consequences for that regime. A second aim is to interrogate the argument that labour legislation has introduced ¡°rigidities¡± in the labour market and trade unions (through collective bargaining) have pushed up minimum wages to unrealistic levels.
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