%0 Journal Article
%T The Disrupted Passage from an Agrarian Rural to an Industrial Urban Workforce in Most Countries in the Global South
%A Christoph Scherrer
%J Agrarian South: Journal of Political Economy
%@ 2321-0281
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/2277976018801099
%X In many late industrializing countries, most of those who leave agriculture do not find gainful employment. In fact, many of the late industrializers are prematurely de-industrializing. Explanations for the lack of absorption capacity of industries and productive services range from overregulated labour markets to globalization. On the basis of a comparison between the conditions prevalent among the early industrializers and present-day latecomers to industry and advanced services, this article highlights other factors: demographic pressures, restrictions on migration, productivity differentials vis-ид-vis the Global North and the few successful late industrializers and the constraints on the promotion of industry stemming from neoliberal globalization. It also points to challenges for a state-led industrial policy stemming from the colonial heritage like lack of societal trust
%K Labour markets
%K underemployment
%K late industrializers
%K agricultural crisis
%K Global South
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2277976018801099