Eating from One Pot : The dynamics of survival in poor South African households /
"As poverty and unemployment deepen in contemporary South Africa, the burning question becomes, how do the poor survive? This book provides a compelling answer. Based on intensive fieldwork, it shows how many African households are on the brink of collapse. That they keep going at all can large...
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Idioma: | anglès |
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Johannesburg :
Wits University Press,
2011.
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- Introduction
- -- 1. 'Sharing the little I have with my family' : the allocative rules of household resources and income
- - 2. 'My wife does not respect me anymore' : unequal power dynamics in households
- - 3. 'I remain an ANC member, but ... ' : civil society in Mpumalanga and Enhlalakahle
- - 4. Theoretical and policy implications
- -- Conclusion : poor households are fragile sites of stability.