Urban Inequality

Owen Crankshaw is Full Professor of Sociology at the University of Cape Town, where he is an expert in the design and statistical analysis of surveys and population censuses. He is the author of Race, Class and the Changing Division of Labour Under Apartheid (1997) and co-author of Uniting a Divided City: Governance and social exclusion in Johannesburg (2002). He has contributed to many other books and scholarly journals in the field of Urban and African Studies.

• AcknowledgementsList of FiguresList of TablesIntroduction: 1.Theories of Urban InequalityPart One: De-Industrialisation and the Labour Market2.The Changing Occupational Structure: Social Polarisation or Professionalisation?3.Professionalisation, Unemployment and Racial InequalityPart Two: From a Fordist to a Post-Fordist Spatial Order4.Johannesburg’s Fordist Spatial Order5.The Edge City of Sandton6.From Racial Ghetto to Excluded Ghetto: Soweto, Eldorado Park and Lenasia7.Racial Residential Desegregation in White NeighbourhoodsConclusion8.Urban InequalityReferences

This detailed study of urban inequality in Johannesburg provides a rigorous examination of the links between de-industrialisation, occupational change, residential segregation and the housing market. It highlights the way in which race and the legacy of the South African apartheid state intersect with changes in the structure of the labour market over a 40 year period from 1970-2011 to change the structure of urban inequality. It is an invaluable source which links to wider international debates about urban social polarisation, professionalization and the post-Fordist city. A ‘must read’ for all students of African cities.