Urban Inequality

Theory, Evidence and Method in Johannesburg

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

Av Owen Crankshaw, South Africa) Crankshaw, Owen (University of Cape Town

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Based on new evidence that challenges existing theories of urban inequality, Crankshaw argues that the changing pattern of earnings and occupational inequality in Johannesburg is better described by the professionalism of employment alongside high-levels of chronic unemployment.Central to this examination is that the social polarisation hypothesis, which is accepted by many, is simply wrong in the case of Johannesburg. Ultimately, Crankshaw posits that the post-Fordist, post-apartheid period is characterised by a completely new division of labour that has caused new forms of racial inequality. That racial inequality in the post-apartheid period is not the result of the persistence of apartheid-era causes, but is the result of new causes that have interacted with the historical effects of apartheid to produce new patterns of racial inequality.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2023-08-24
Mått154 x 232 x 16 mm
Vikt360 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SeriePolitics and Society in Urban Africa
Antal sidor232
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9781786998958

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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.