The Work in Progress Seminar Series returns tomorrow with a talk on manufacturing firms in Malta analysed through economic sociology.
The second half of the 20th century saw Malta transitioning from a colony dependent on its colonial power to a sovereign nation-state. Such a shift, partially and initially, came through a strategy that prioritised an export-led type of industrialisation fuelled by foreign investment.
A number of such multinational companies still hold a presence in Malta, albeit in a number of cases these being physiognomically are distinct from their original state.
The talk will be delivered by Dylan Cassar whose study firstly aims to take a sociological look at the industrial organisation, evolving or otherwise, of said manufacturing companies in terms of ‘the Fordist’ and ‘the post-Fordist’.
It is secondly concerned with the relationships and practices these companies hold with locally-owned SMEs, which would represent a possible overcoming of a rigid and classical dual economy composed on the one hand of the foreign-owned company and the domestic SME on the other.
These main concerns are dealt with by presenting a set of evolving scenarios involving two...
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