Class, race, and inequality in South Africa / Jeremy Seekings and Nicoli Nattrass.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Seekings, Jeremy.

Contributor:

Nattrass, Nicoli.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Income distribution--South Africa.

Income distribution.

Apartheid--Economic aspects--South Africa.

Apartheid.

Social classes--South Africa.

Social classes.

Labor market--South Africa.

Labor market.

Education and state--South Africa.

Education and state.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 online resource (x, 446 p.) ) ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 mid-twentieth 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.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Authors' Note

Chapter 1. Introduction

Chapter 2. South African Society on the Eve of Apartheid

Chapter 3. Social Change and Income Inequality Under Apartheid

Chapter 4. Apartheid as a Distributional Regime

Chapter 5. The Rise of Unemployment Under Apartheid

Chapter 6. Income Inequality at Apartheid's End

Chapter 7. Social Stratification and Income Inequality at the End of Apartheid

Chapter 8. Did the Unemployed Constitute an Underclass?

Chapter 9. Income Inequality After Apartheid

Chapter 10. The Post-Apartheid Distributional Regime

Chapter 11. Transforming the Distributional Regime

Notes

References

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 405-437) and index.

ISBN:

9786611729103

9781281729101

1281729108

9780300128758

0300128754

OCLC:

1024005684