Class, Race, and Inequality in South Africa

Klappentext 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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• Authors: Nicoli Nattrass, Nattrass Nicoli, Jeremy Seekings, Jeremy Nattrass Seekings, Jeremy/ Nattrass Seekings
• Publisher: Yale University Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.12.2005
• EAN: 9780300108927
• ISBN: 978-0-300-10892-7
• No. of pages: 464
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 146 mm x 32 mm
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research; Ethnic Studies, Republic of South Africa, Social discrimination & inequality, Social classes, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes & Economic Disparity, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Race & Ethnic Relations, Racism and racial discrimination / Anti-racism, Social discrimination and social justice, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / African Studies