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Race, class and the post-apartheid democratic state / edited by John Reynolds, Ben Fine and Robert van Niekerk.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Wolpe, Harold.
- Education.
- History.
- Race relations.
- South Africa--Race relations--History--20th century.
- South Africa.
- South Africa--Race relations--History--21st century.
- South Africa--Politics and government--1994-.
- Politics and government.
- Industrial relations--South Africa.
- Industrial relations.
- Industrial policy--South Africa.
- Industrial policy.
- Education--South Africa--History--20th century.
- Education--South Africa--History--21st century.
- South Africa--Economic conditions--1991-.
- Economic conditions.
- Economic history.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- x, 384 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Pietermaritzburg, South Africa : University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2019.
- Summary:
- This book provides an overdue critical re-engagement with the analytical approach exemplified by the work of Harold Wolpe, who was a key theorist within the liberation movement. It probes the following broad questions: how do we understand the trajectory of the post-apartheid period, how did the current situation come about in the transformation, how does the current situation relate to how a post-apartheid society was conceived in anticipation, and what are the implications of what have been failed ambitions for progressives?The contributions to this volume cohere around the following themes: labour and capital in post-apartheid South Africa, the post-apartheid South African economy, the state and transformation of South African society, and social policy in post-apartheid South Africa. The aim is not to provide a common or coherent theoretical perspective, but rather to probe a core problematic and set of theoretical concerns. The contributing authors explore not only historical and contemporary specifics, but deploy and reflect on theoretical tools that allow us to make sense of those specifics and to engage with the dynamics of race and class, and the form and functioning of the state, including its articulation with an increasingly financialised form of global capitalism.
- Contents:
- Labour and capital in post-apartheid South Africa
- The post-apartheid South African economy
- The state and the transformation of South African society
- Social policy in post-apartheid South Africa: education and health.
- Credits:
- John Reynolds is the founding head of the Neil Aggett Labour Studies Unit at Rhodes University.Ben Fine is a professor of Economics at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, and a visiting professor at the Institute of Social and Economic Research at Rhodes University.Robert van Niekerk is a professor in the Wits School of Governance at the University of the Witwatersrand.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781869144197
- 1869144198
- OCLC:
- 1105556555
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