Class, Race, and Inequality in South AfricaThe 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. |
Contents
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2 South African Society on the Eve of Apartheid | 49 |
3 Social Change and Income Inequality Under Apartheid | 90 |
4 Apartheid as a Distributional Regime | 128 |
5 The Rise of Unemployment Under Apartheid | 165 |
6 Income Inequality at Apartheids End | 188 |
7 Social Stratification and Income Inequality at the End of Apartheid | 236 |
8 Did the Unemployed Constitute an Underclass? | 271 |
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African households African labour African population African workers agriculture analysis apartheid apartheid period average bantustans benefits Cape Town Chapter class structure coloured and Indian declined deracialisation Development domestic workers earnings economic employed employment estimates expenditure farm workers Gini coefficient growth path higher household income ibid income deciles increased industrial influx control Johannesburg Keiskammahoek KwaZulu-Natal labour force labour market land Limpopo Province living McGrath ment migrants mobility Nattrass occupations old-age pension overall percent ployment policies political poor post-apartheid poverty Pretoria production proportion quintile QwaQwa race redistribution reform remittances Research reserves rising rose rural areas sector share Simkins skilled social capital society South Africa spending Statistics South Africa strategy survey Table tion Transkei underclass unem unemployed unemployment Union of S.A. unskilled urban African urban areas wages welfare Western Cape white farmers white South Africans white workers