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| Other authors / contributors: | Nattrass, Nicoli, author.
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| ISBN: | 9780300128758
0300128754
9780300108927
0300108923
1281729108
9781281729101
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| Digital file characteristics: | data file
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 405-437) and index.
Print version record.
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| Summary: | 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.
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| Other form: | Print version: Seekings, Jeremy. Class, race, and inequality in South Africa. New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2005 0300108923
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