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Title: | Urban Working Class Credit Usage and Over-Indebtedness in South Africa |
Authors: | Hurwitz, Ingrid Luiz, John |
Year: | 2007 |
Periodical: | Journal of Southern African Studies |
Volume: | 33 |
Issue: | 1 |
Period: | March |
Pages: | 107-131 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | South Africa |
Subjects: | debt credit urban households Urbanization and Migration Labor and Employment Economics and Trade |
External link: | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03057070601136616 |
Abstract: | Growth in credit consumption in South Africa has exceeded growth in incomes, leading to increasing levels of household debt. One of the groups most affected by these changes is the urban working class. This article explores some of the features of, and reasons for, their over-indebtedness through industry specialist interviews, primary fieldwork and credit bureau data analysis of a sample of urban working class breadwinners and presents this within the changing socioeconomic context of postapartheid South Africa. Notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract, edited] |