Doctoral Dissertation Research: Class Formation and the Decline of Work

研究机构：约翰霍普金斯大学本研究探讨了正规雇佣劳动力的减少如何影响南非工人的生计策略。研究人员评估了一种假设，即正式雇佣劳动力的减少导致南非人越来越依赖于历史上重要的生计策略，这些策略涉及跨越就业与失业、正式与非正式、农村与城市之间的鸿沟的分享与合作。将通过现有的家庭调查以及对选定南非家庭生计战略的原始人种学研究来收集数据。更广泛的影响：研究结果将通过突出就业-失业阶层共有的生计战略，有助于讨论南非和其他中等收入国家的劳动力市场和福利政策。这些战略可能是社会福利政策的基础，可以从广泛的工人群体中受益并得到政治支持。

SES-1032206PI: Beverly J. SilverCo-PI: Benjamin ScullyInstitution: Johns Hopkins UniversityThis study examines how the decline of formal wage labor affected the livelihood strategies of South African workers. The researchers evaluate the hypothesis that formal wage labor's decline has led South Africans to increasingly rely on historically important livelihood strategies that involve sharing and cooperation across the divides of employed-unemployed, formal-informal, and rural-urban. Data will be gathered through existing household surveys as well as original ethnographic research on the livelihood strategies of selected South African households. Broader Impacts:The findings will contribute to debates about labor market and welfare policy in South Africa and other middle-income countries by highlighting livelihood strategies that are shared across the employed-unemployed divide. These strategies may be the basis for social welfare policy that could benefit and enjoy political support from a broad cross-section of workers.