Dynamics of social differentiation after land reform among former labour tenants in Besters, KwaZulu-Natal
Abstract
• Locate land reform in SA in changes in 1970s which ended “state activism in capitalism” and started the “moment of ‘globalization”
• Global restructuring of capital has been accompanied by the “fragmentation” of classes of labour and intense struggles for survival and reproduction.
• Petty commodity production, combining contradictory class positions of capital and labour, is prevalent and also contributes to this fragmentation
• So does LR enable expanded petty commodity production or does it simply diversify the strategies of survival of these fragmented classes of labour?