Industrial growth 1920-1967, a study of medium size industries in Dar es Salaam
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1977
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University of Dar es Salaam
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This is a study on the development of medium sized industries in Dar es Salaam. The thesis begins with an introductory chapter where the critical framework of the main work is discussed; the question of merchant capital and that of a dependant colonial economy are all discussed. The first chapter looks at the whole economy of Tanzania during the pre-colonial period and tries to establish the development of productive forces and their progressive transformation and later their stagnation mainly due to the coming of cheap mass produced goods from the metropole.The second chapter looks at the various factors both social and economic which led to the lopsided development of industries in Dar es Salaam. The period covered here is between 1920 and 1945. The thesis examines here aspects such as sources of capital and the type of industries established. The work also tries to show how during the period of Second World War and the Great Depression, the colonies struggled for self-sufficiences. The third chapter discusses the developments in the 1945 to 1960 period and the effects of the Multinational Corporation in these industries. The fourth and last chapter deals with the industrial developments in Dar es Salaam. This is a case study whereby the specifics of the various developments are studied. This chapter has tried to review the operations, of these industries, their output values, raw material used and the profitability of each branch of industry studied. The conclusions reached are based on the material discussed in the previous chapters. The reader will discover that this work is an attempt to show some of the limitations that confronted industrial growth in Dar es Salaam. Some of these were manifested by the nature and operations of merchant capital itself and the dependence on the metropolitan economics. The study relied on both oral sources and industrial surveys. This was supplemented by work done in the Tanzania National Archives (TNA), the Registrar of Companies, and the Central Bureau of Statistics.
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Small business, Tanzania, Economic conditions, Industries, Dar es Salaam region