Browsing Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS) by Subject "Money"

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    • Cape Town's African poor 

      de Swardt, Cobus (Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2004)
      The typical ‘face of poverty’ in South Africa is no longer that of a rural woman engaged in subsistence agricultural production. Poverty today also refers to the large number of unemployed men who wait daily in vain on ...

    • Money and sociality in South Africa's informal economy 

      Neves, David; du Toit, Andries (Cambridge University Press, 2012)
      This article examines the interplay of agency, culture and context in order to consider the social embeddedness of money and trade at the margins of South Africa’s economy. Focusing on small-scale, survivalist informal ...