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Conflict Theory
Crossman (2014) describes the Conflict Theory as the emphasizing how social order is produced by the role coercion and power as groups in society competes against each other for social and economic resources.
Crossman (2014) describes the Conflict Theory as the emphasizing how social order is produced by the role coercion and power as groups in society competes against each other for social and economic resources. In the Apartheid era, the government used their power to create segregation and took away the rights of the disadvantaged groups. When Democracy came it gave all South Africans an equal voice but there was certain policies introduced to address the inequalities such as BEEEE, woman empowerment, education reform and the new Labour Relations Act.
According to the Department of Trade and Industry (2014) the Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment policies was introduced to redress the social, political and economic inequality in South Africa. Jefery (2013) said that even the B-BBEE is flawed and should be scraped. Although the inequality between black and white is balancing in the workplace, the gap between rich and poor is getting even greater. The only individuals who benefits from this policy is high and middle class black groups who can afford to go to good schools and tertiary institutions.
Jefery (2013) wrote that Moeletsi Mbeki the brother of former president Mbeki also criticised BEE by saying that it only creates a small class of wealthy crony capitalists made up by the ANC. In the future the B-BBEE policy will create an even greater gap between rich and poor. It can thus be assumed that it will greatly contribute to more poverty as the rich get richer and the poor get poorer.
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...ange for example changes in production processes and work organisation favouring employment of high-skill workers.

According to Marinscu and Wolthoff (2012) the relation between skills and wages determines the returns to investment in human capital. Hourly wages are related to both qualification levels and skills. The effect of having a tertiary qualification is to not only to increase median incomes but also to extend the relative range of income that it is possible to earn. Similarly, with skill levels, people with low skills have a relatively restricted range of hourly wages, compared to people with higher skills.

Marinscu and Wolthoff (2012) say that wages can be explained by a number of factors. These include the characteristics of the individual, such as age and gender, as well as the combination of literacy and numeracy skills and educational qualification.

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