Abstract: | Starting-point of the author: to assess the major unresolved issues in the field of labour and to examine. Caking the economy as a single living organism, the South African body economic and to try to diagnose, and prescribe cures for, any diseases one may find. In that context the following topics are examined: The problem of boundaries - Poverty and unemployment - Distribution - Productivity and earnings - Human capital - Migrant labour - Industrial relations. Notes, tables, diagram. Contributors to the discussion of this paper: Professor van der Dussen and Mrs Nattrass. |