scholarly journals Does Illiquidity Alter Child Labor and Schooling Decisions? Evidence from Household Responses to Anticipated Cash Transfers in South Africa

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric Edmonds
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Child Labor ◽  
Cash Transfers ◽  
Schooling Decisions ◽  
Household Responses

scholarly journals Is there a rationale for conditional cash transfers for children in South Africa?

2009 ◽  
Vol 70 (1) ◽  
pp. 70-91 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francie Lund ◽  
Michael Noble ◽  
Helen Barnes ◽  
Gemma Wright
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Cash Transfers ◽  
Conditional Cash Transfers

The Impact of Conditional Cash Transfers on the Amount and Type of Child Labor

2016 ◽  
Vol 80 ◽  
pp. 33-47 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ximena V. Del Carpio ◽  
Norman V. Loayza ◽  
Tomoko Wada
Keyword(s):  
Child Labor ◽  
Cash Transfers ◽  
Conditional Cash Transfers ◽  
The Impact

scholarly journals Cash Transfers and Child Labor

2014 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 202-234 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. de Hoop ◽  
F. C. Rosati
Keyword(s):  
Child Labor ◽  
Cash Transfers

scholarly journals Cash Transfers and Child Labor

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacobus de Hoop ◽  
Furio C. Rosati
Keyword(s):  
Child Labor ◽  
Cash Transfers

Labour, laziness and distribution: work imaginaries among the South African unemployed

Africa ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 90 (2) ◽  
pp. 229-251 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. J. Dawson ◽  
E. Fouksman
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
South African ◽  
Informal Settlement ◽  
Cash Transfers ◽  
Labour Markets ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Basic Income ◽  
Social Imaginaries ◽  
Unconditional Cash Transfers ◽  
The Unemployed

AbstractA wealth of new writing has emerged around the future of labour, focusing on thinking beyond employment in imagining the futures of ‘surplus populations’ no longer needed by labour markets. These new imaginaries include radically expanded forms of redistribution, such as unconditional cash transfers or universal basic income. But what are the views of the ‘surplus populations’ themselves? This article uses ethnographic research in an informal settlement in South Africa to understand why the unemployed or precariously employed poor are themselves often reluctant to delink labour and income. In particular, we focus on the discursive use of ‘laziness’ by urban unemployed young men. The varied (and often contradictory) ways in which these men employ the laziness discourse sheds light on the logics linking waged work and money in our informants’ social imaginaries. It illuminates the underlying contradictions and complexities of such logics, including those of gender, relational obligations, expectations of citizenship, and the inevitable tensions between aspirational hopes and economic realities. To begin thinking ‘beyond the proper job’, to use Ferguson and Li's phrase, we must unravel and understand such nuanced logics that continue to bind together hard work, deservingness and cash – even for those left out of labour markets.

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