ISBN:
9780300128758
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0300128754
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (x, 446 p.)
,
ill.
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Seekings, Jeremy Class, race, and inequality in South Africa
DDC:
306.30968
Keywords:
Income distribution South Africa
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Apartheid Economic aspects
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South Africa
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Social classes South Africa
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Labor market South Africa
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Education and state South Africa
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South Africa
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Labor market
;
Education and state
;
Income distribution
;
Social classes
;
Apartheid Economic aspects
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural
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POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Cultural Policy
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture
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POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Social Policy
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Apartheid ; Economic aspects
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Education and state
;
Income distribution
;
Labor market
;
Social classes
;
South Africa
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
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 deracialisation 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 'distrributional regime'. The post-apartheid distributional regime continues to divide South Africans into insiders and outsiders: the insiders, now increasingly multi-racial, enjoy good access to well-paid, skilled jobs; the outsiders lack skills and employment
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 405-437) and index. - Description based on print version record
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