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Eating from One Pot : The dynamics of survival in poor South African households /

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"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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Autore principale: Mosoetsa, Sarah (Autore)
Natura: Elettronico eBook
Lingua:inglese
Pubblicazione: Johannesburg : Wits University Press, 2011.
Serie:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Soggetti:
Poverty.
Households > Economic aspects.
Communal living.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > General.
Menages (Statistique) > Aspect economique > Afrique du Sud.
Pauvrete > Afrique du Sud.
Communes (Contre-culture) > Afrique du Sud.
Households > Economic aspects > South Africa.
Poverty > South Africa.
Communal living > South Africa.
South Africa.
Electronic books.
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Sommario:
  • 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.

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