Hi all,
So, the basis of industrial policy was not to push it and sometimes actively restrain it as it could hurt the metropolitan industry: a job on the assembly line in Dakar is a job not in Paris.
That works when the work is of low value. So, what happens when a gap arrives between high value industrial work, like the car industry today, with very skilled labor, versus the need for cheap, unskilled labor, like the clothing industry or cheap consumer goods like in East Asia?
The gap started to come around the 70's I'd say. So, when something like that happens, if there wasn't such big decolonisation movements (many PoDs, at least for France), would we see a push for "cheap" and unskilled industry in the colonies, to play a role similar to what China and Taiwan have done in that time period?
Cheers!