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This book argues that contradictory dynamics in the urban labour market both facilitated and undermined the apartheid aim of white supremacy in the workplace. So, whereas racial inequality was deepened by low wages and rising unemployment among African, it was simultaneously undermined by black upward occupational mobility and rising black wages. Apartheid's legacy is therefore not only extreme racial inequality but also extreme inequality among black South Africans. This suggests that inequality in South Africa will be driven increasingly by class, rather than racial divisions.
