1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910971688203321

Autore

Seekings Jeremy

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Haven, : Yale University Press, c2005

ISBN

9786611729103

9781281729101

1281729108

9780300128758

0300128754

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (1 online resource (x, 446 p.) ) : ill

Altri autori (Persone)

NattrassNicoli

Disciplina

306.3/0968

Soggetti

Income distribution - South Africa

Apartheid - Economic aspects - South Africa

Social classes - South Africa

Labor market - South Africa

Education and state - South Africa

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

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

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Authors' Note -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. South African Society on the Eve of Apartheid -- Chapter 3. Social Change and Income Inequality Under Apartheid -- Chapter 4. Apartheid as a Distributional Regime -- Chapter 5. The Rise of Unemployment Under Apartheid -- Chapter 6. Income Inequality at Apartheid's End -- Chapter 7. Social Stratification and Income Inequality at the End of Apartheid -- Chapter 8. Did the Unemployed Constitute an Underclass? -- Chapter 9. Income Inequality After Apartheid -- Chapter 10. The Post-Apartheid Distributional Regime -- Chapter 11. Transforming the Distributional Regime -- Notes -- References -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

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.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9911019654303321

Autore

Berry John <1960->

Titolo

Offshoring opportunities [[electronic resource] ] : strategies and tactics for global competitiveness / / John Berry

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hoboken, N.J., : Wiley, c2006

ISBN

1-119-20130-6

1-280-24306-6

9786610243068

0-471-77364-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (272 p.)

Disciplina

658.4/058

658.4058

Soggetti

International business enterprises

Contracting out

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Offshoring and its discontents -- Everything you can send down a wire is up for grabs -- Coase and the changing nature of work -- Pouring the foundation : the offshoring value delivery framework -- Is the



organization ready? -- Making the case -- So many choices -- Location is everything -- An alliance is forged -- Let's make a deal -- Other relationship details -- Start of a beautiful friendship -- Calling all low cost reps -- Toward best practices.

Sommario/riassunto

offshoring opportunities is on target for today's marketplace""This book provides a much needed framework for offshoring that supports making sound business decisions in this area, and it can help guide the management of the resulting offshore relationship in an efficient and effective manner. John brings clarity and structure to this broad and complex subject.""-Jim Maloney Chief Security Executive Corillian Corporation""An extremely well-written and researched book. Starts with a good background on the political and cultural implications of offshoring and proceeds to prov