Social stratification and inequality in South Africa at the end of Apartheid

dc.contributor.authorSeekings, Jeremy
dc.date.accessioned2016-05-19T16:34:17Z
dc.date.available2016-05-19T16:34:17Z
dc.date.issued2003
dc.date.updated2016-05-19T16:32:38Z
dc.description.abstractThis paper initiates the project of mapping the class structure of South Africa at the end of the apartheid era. The theoretical bases of class in the advanced industrialised societies of the North are revised to render them more appropriate for South African conditions. This entails emphasising not only the differences between employers and employees and those between working people in service relationships and those with labour contracts, but also the differences between those with formal labour contracts and those who sell their labour on a more informal basis. Data from household surveys is used to construct several alternative but crude class categories. It is shown that there are strong correlations between class and income, children’s schooling and aspects of health. Further research is required to demonstrate that class is – or is not – consequential in a range of other respects.en_ZA
dc.identifier.apacitationSeekings, J. (2003). <i>Social stratification and inequality in South Africa at the end of Apartheid</i> University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Centre for Social Science Research(CSSR). Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19736en_ZA
dc.identifier.chicagocitationSeekings, Jeremy <i>Social stratification and inequality in South Africa at the end of Apartheid.</i> University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Centre for Social Science Research(CSSR), 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19736en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationSeekings, J. (2003). Social stratification and inequality in South Africa at the end of apartheid. Centre for Social Science Research, University of Cape Town.en_ZA
dc.identifier.isbn0-7992-2171-6en_ZA
dc.identifier.ris TY - Working Paper AU - Seekings, Jeremy AB - This paper initiates the project of mapping the class structure of South Africa at the end of the apartheid era. The theoretical bases of class in the advanced industrialised societies of the North are revised to render them more appropriate for South African conditions. This entails emphasising not only the differences between employers and employees and those between working people in service relationships and those with labour contracts, but also the differences between those with formal labour contracts and those who sell their labour on a more informal basis. Data from household surveys is used to construct several alternative but crude class categories. It is shown that there are strong correlations between class and income, children’s schooling and aspects of health. Further research is required to demonstrate that class is – or is not – consequential in a range of other respects. DA - 2003 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town J1 - Centre for Social Science Research LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2003 SM - 0-7992-2171-6 T1 - Social stratification and inequality in South Africa at the end of Apartheid TI - Social stratification and inequality in South Africa at the end of Apartheid UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19736 ER - en_ZA
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dc.identifier.vancouvercitationSeekings J. Social stratification and inequality in South Africa at the end of Apartheid. 2003 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19736en_ZA
dc.languageengen_ZA
dc.publisher.departmentCentre for Social Science Research(CSSR)en_ZA
dc.publisher.facultyFaculty of Humanitiesen_ZA
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Cape Town
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)*
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dc.sourceCentre for Social Science Research
dc.source.urihttp://www.cssr.uct.ac.za/
dc.subject.otherSocial stratification
dc.subject.otherInequality
dc.subject.otherSouth Africa
dc.titleSocial stratification and inequality in South Africa at the end of Apartheiden_ZA
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