Class, Race, and Inequality in South Africa
The distribution of incomes in South Africa in 2004, ten years after the transition to democracy, was probably more unequal than it had been under apartheid. In this book, Jeremy Seekings and Nicoli Nattrass explain why this is so, offering a detailed and comprehensive analysis of inequality in Sout...
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| Médium: | E-kniha Kniha |
| Jazyk: | English |
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New Haven
Yale University Press
14.12.2005
Yale Univ. Press |
| Vydanie: | 1 |
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| ISBN: | 0300108923, 9780300108927, 9780300128758, 0300128754 |
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| Shrnutí: | The distribution of incomes in South Africa in 2004, ten years after the transition to democracy, was probably more unequal than it had been under apartheid. In this book, Jeremy Seekings and Nicoli Nattrass explain why this is so, offering a detailed and comprehensive analysis of inequality in South Africa from the midtwentieth century to the early twenty-first century. They show that the basis of inequality shifted in the last decades of the twentieth century from race to class. Formal deracialization of public policy did not reduce the actual disadvantages experienced by the poor nor the advantages of the rich. The fundamental continuity in patterns of advantage and disadvantage resulted from underlying continuities in public policy, or what Seekings and Nattrass call the "distributional regime." The post-apartheid distributional regime continues to divide South Africans into insiders and outsiders. The insiders, now increasingly multiracial, enjoy good access to well-paid, skilled jobs; the outsiders lack skills and employment. |
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| Bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 405-437) and index SourceType-Books-1 ObjectType-Book-1 content type line 7 |
| ISBN: | 0300108923 9780300108927 9780300128758 0300128754 |
| DOI: | 10.12987/9780300128758 |