Racial segmentation is economically reproduced through unfree labor institutions like reserves and compounds

Evidence

Wolpe suggests, for example, that the reliance of the capitalist sector in South Africa on the non-capitalist sectors in the African areas for both cheap labor supply and subsistence reproduction enables capital to pay for labor-power below the cost of its reproduction, while having always available a plentiful labor supply whose costs of subsistence it does not fully bear (Wolpe 1972). … Where capitalism develops by means, in part, of its articulation with non-capitalist modes, “the mode of political domination and the content of legitimating ideologies assume racial, ethnic and cultural forms and for the same reasons as in the case of imperialism … political domination takes on a colonial form” (Wolpe 1975). He adds: “The conservation of non-capitalist modes of production necessarily requires the development of ideologies and political policies which revolve around the segregation and preservation and control of African ‘tribal’ societies” — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 611 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

Category: Causal Relationships

Related

• South Africa couples industrial capitalism with race as an articulating principle of social structure. (similarity 0.82)
• Capitalism can rest securely on unfree, racially-fractioned labor rather than free labor. (similarity 0.81)
• South African racial structure is preserved by distinctive economic mechanisms, not abolished by capitalism (similarity 0.80)
• Capitalism conserving non-capitalist modes produces racial and colonial ideologies. (similarity 0.80)
• Post-1877 racial division of labor was engineered to stabilize capitalist wealth (similarity 0.79)
• Latin American underdevelopment results from articulation of modes, not inevitable capitalist transformation (similarity 0.79)
• Colonial unfree labor can sustain effective capitalism, not just free labor (similarity 0.79)
• Differential incorporation of labor sectors systematically coincides with racist and ethnic segmentary features (similarity 0.79)
• Capitalism preserving unfree labor is a deviant historical case (similarity 0.78)
• South African capitalism depends on both free and forced labor simultaneously. (similarity 0.78)
• Group-based racial rule outcompetes individualizing ideology for cheap labor supply (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Racial ideology functions as a labor discipline for capital #expands (0.80)
• Capitalism conserving non-capitalist modes produces racial and colonial ideologies. #corroborates (0.80) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 611
• Capitalism preserving unfree labor is a deviant historical case #exemplifies (0.70)
• Slavery, lynching, and segregation each institutionalized a distinct form of racism #exemplifies (0.60) — Davis, Angela Y, Are Prisons Obsolete, 59