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Elite transition : from Apartheid to neoliberalism in South Africa / Patrick Bond.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bond, Patrick, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Elite (Social sciences)--South Africa.
- Elite (Social sciences).
- South Africa--Economic conditions--1991-.
- South Africa.
- South Africa--Politics and government--1994-.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (352 p.)
- Edition:
- Revised & expanded edition.
- Place of Publication:
- London, [England] : Pluto Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Examines how the ANC went from being a force of liberation to serving the economic interests of the elite few, arguing that South Africa's largest trade union's break from the ANC offers hope for changing South Africa's political terrain despite twenty years of state-corporate corruption, growing protests, rising income inequality, and ecological destruction.
- Contents:
- Part 1: Power and economic discourses. Neoliberal economic constraints on liberation
- Social contract scenarios
- Part II: The ascendancy of neoliberal social policy. Rumours, dreams and promises
- The housing question
- Part III: International lessons. The World Bank as 'knowledge bank' [sic]
- Beyond neoliberalism? South Africa and global economic crisis
- Afterword : From racial to class apartheid
- Afterword to the new edition : South Africa faces it 'Faustian pact': neoliberalism, financialisation and proto-fascism.
- Notes:
- Oorspr. uitg.: 2000.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781783711451
- 1783711450
- 9781783711444
- 1783711442
- OCLC:
- 923336084
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