Title: Class, race, and inequality in South Africa /
Authors: Seekings, Jeremy; Nattrass, Nicoli
Publisher: Yale University Press,
Year: 2005
Subjects: Income distribution South Africa.; Apartheid Economic aspects South Africa.; Social classes South Africa.; Labor market South Africa.; Education and state South Africa.
Abstract: The authors explain why 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. It offers a detailed and comprehensive analysis of inequality in South Africa from the mid 20th century to early 21st century.
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.