Research Catalog

Title

Class, race, and inequality in South Africa / Jeremy Seekings and Nicoli Nattrass.

Author

Seekings, Jeremy.

Publication

New Haven : Yale University Press, [2005], ©2005.

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• Contributor biographical information
• Publisher description

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Additional Authors

Nattrass, Nicoli.

Description

x, 446 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

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."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

• Apartheid
• Ongelijkheid
• Apartheid > Economic aspects > South Africa
• Education and state > South Africa
• Income distribution > South Africa
• Inkomensverdeling
• Zuid-Afrika
• Labor market > South Africa
• Sociale klassen
• Social classes > South Africa

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 405-437) and index.

Contents

1. Introduction : states, markets, and inequality -- 2. South African society on the eve of apartheid -- 3. Social change and income inequality under apartheid -- 4. Apartheid as a distributional regime -- 5. The rise of unemployment under apartheid -- 6. Income inequality at apartheid's end -- 7. Social stratification and income inequality at the end of apartheid -- 8. Did the unemployed constitute an underclass? -- 9. Income inequality after apartheid -- 10. The post-apartheid distributional regime -- 11. Transforming the distributional regime.

ISBN

• 0300108923 (alk. paper)
• 9780300108927 (alk. paper)

LCCN

2005008316

OCLC

• ocm58721219
• SCSB-5362042

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries