TY - BOOK ID - 14259061 TI - Class, race, and inequality in South Africa AU - Seekings, Jeremy AU - Nattrass, Nicoli PY - 2005 SN - 0300108923 9786611729103 1281729108 0300128754 9780300128758 9780300108927 9781281729101 PB - New Haven London Yale University Press DB - UniCat KW - Income distribution KW - Apartheid KW - Social classes KW - Labor market KW - Education and state KW - Society. KW - Business & Economics KW - Economic History KW - Economic aspects KW - Distribution of income KW - Income inequality KW - Inequality of income KW - Class distinction KW - Classes, Social KW - Rank KW - Separate development (Race relations) KW - Distribution (Economic theory) KW - Disposable income KW - Caste KW - Estates (Social orders) KW - Social status KW - Class consciousness KW - Classism KW - Social stratification KW - Segregation KW - Anti-apartheid movements KW - Post-apartheid era KW - E-books KW - South Africa UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:14259061 AB - 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 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. ER -