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Class, race, and inequality in South Africa /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Seekings, Jeremy
Other Authors: Nattrass, Nicoli
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press, [2005]
Subjects:
Income distribution > South Africa.
Apartheid > Economic aspects > South Africa.
Social classes > South Africa.
Labor market > South Africa.
Education and state > South Africa.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: states, markets, and inequality
  • South African society on the eve of apartheid
  • Social change and income inequality under apartheid
  • Apartheid as a distributional regime
  • The rise of unemployment under apartheid
  • Income inequality at apartheid's end
  • Social stratification and income inequality at the end of apartheid
  • Did the unemployed constitute an underclass?
  • Income inequality after apartheid
  • The post-apartheid distributional regime
  • Transforming the distributional regime.