- Title
- Working in poverty: Informal employment of household gardeners in Eastern Cape towns, South Africa
- Creator
- King, A, Shackleton, Charlie M
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date
- 2022
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/401398
- Identifier
- vital:69731
- Identifier
- xlink:href="https://doi.org/10.1080/0376835X.2021.1940867"
- Description
- In South Africa there has been relatively little consideration of the informal employment offered to domestic household workers and gardeners. Here we report on the number and profile of gardeners employed by private households and the wage and satisfaction rates in 12 towns of the Eastern Cape. Over 98% of the informal gardeners were male, middle-aged and with limited formal schooling. Approximately 58% of middle and upper income households employed a gardener, at a mean daily rate of R112.20 in 2019. This equated to 13 170 gardeners earning a total wage bill of R139 million p.a. across the 12 towns, which scales up to 0.7–1 million informal gardeners nationally earning approximately R10–14 billion per year. However, daily remuneration was insufficient to cover basic needs, and slightly more than half of the gardeners would prefer a different job, indicating the survivalist nature of the sector.
- Format
- computer, online resource, application/pdf, 1 online resource (14 pages), pdf
- Publisher
- Taylor and Francis
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Development Southern Africa, King, A. and Shackleton, C.M., 2022. Working in poverty: Informal employment of household gardeners in Eastern Cape towns, South Africa. Development Southern Africa, 39(6), pp.1007-1020, Development Southern Africa volume 39 number 6 p. 1007 2022 1470-3637
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RU DST/NRF SARChI for Interdisciplinary Science in Land and Natural Resource Use for Sustainable Livelihoods
Shackleton, Charles Michael (Distinguished Prof)
RU Department of Environmental Science
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