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- W2025932009 abstract "This article examines some central features of the South African civil service during the apartheid era. It sketches the context and nature of the massive expansion of the state administration ushered in by the National Party after 1948. In explaining the labour shortages afflicting the bureaucratic behemoth that emerged, the article analyzes a key paradox: despite the massive expansion in the size and power of the bureaucracy, its effectiveness was seriously eroded by emerging structural inefficiencies and skills shortages that arose, in part, from the determination to keep vast categories of the workforce white and, if possible, Afrikaner. This article also overturns the common assumption that the white civil service enjoyed a 'comfortable alliance' with the National Party government. Despite the placing of Afrikaners in 'sheltered employment' on a large scale in the civil service after 1948, the government that made the appointments lorded it over these employees, often treating them with contempt. The civil servants' Public Service Association, meanwhile, was deferential in the extreme and wedded to a notion of service that precluded any assertiveness. It was incapable of defending, let alone advancing, its members' interests. Finally, this article engages with the debate over 'whiteness' initiated by David Roediger. 'As perceptions of mediocrity and incompetence in the civil service spread within the wider (white) society, white employees of the state were stigmatized as people who had been given jobs simply because of their race, not their skills. Paradoxically, then, their status as white civil servants opened the way for social contempt. In this case then, the 'wages of whiteness' were more double-edged than Roediger's formulation suggests.'." @default.
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- W2025932009 title "Whiteness and Power in the South African Civil Service: Paradoxes of the Apartheid State" @default.
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