Adaptive Expectations and Subjective Well-being of Landfill Waste Pickers in South Africa’s Free State Province

Blaauw, Derick; Pretorius, Anmar; Viljoen, Kotie; Schenck, Rinie

doi:10.1007/s12132-019-09381-5

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“…This finding corresponds with research by both Diener et al (2009) and Cummins (2000), who confirmed that income influences the SWB of poor people. However, this finding is in contrast with recent studies on the SWB of waste pickers in South Africa (Blaauw et al, 2020).…”

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“…Waste picking is mostly done by South Africans. In a study investigating the SWB of waste pickers on selected landfill sites in the Free State, Blaauw et al (2020) found evidence of surprisingly high levels of SWB using the same NIDS measure as this study. Some of the factors responsible for the surprising finding may include the notion of being in control of the income they earn-to a degree at least.…”

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“…Waste pickers know precisely what the various recyclables' prices are that they will make through their collecting endeavours. The more they can collect, the higher the income (Blaauw et al, 2020).…”

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“…Investigating these determinants, in this case, could help us identify the typical social and economic vulnerabilities that migrant car guards experience daily. Distinct determinants found in the literature on SWB in informal economy settings include demographic variables (which mainly act as control variables in the regression), economic variables, and other variables that could typically influence the SWB of a respondent (Blaauw et al, 2013(Blaauw et al, , 2020Rojas, 2013). The possible determinants that were included in the car guards' SWB function are listed in Table 4.…”

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“…The subjective well-being perceptions in both Emalahleni and Mbombela were much more negative than those obtained in similar studies among day labourers in different locations and other informal self-employed workers such as waste pickers (see, e.g. Blaauw et al 2020;Van Wyk et al 2020).…”

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Precarious labour in Mpumalanga, South Africa: A case study of informally employed day labourers in Mbombela and Emalahleni

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Precarious employment is becoming more prevalent again in the developed world while being widespread in developing economies. Day labour is precarious wage work that is emerging and re-emerging in the global North and South. Within the global South context, we explore the socio-economic and labour market outcomes of day labourers in Mpumalanga. A comparable multi-case study research design reveals day labourers' precarious existence: low and uncertain incomes, struggle to provide for dependents, low levels of subjective well-being and structural vulnerability. The results reflect differences between a more diversified economy (Mbombela) and one subject to the mining industry's boom and bust cycles (Emalahleni). Social policy must be reconsidered to adhere to the South African government's developmental state vision.

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Life Satisfaction among the Poorest of the Poor: A Study in Urban Slum Communities in India

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This study investigates the level and predictors of life satisfaction in people living in slums in Kolkata, India. Participants of six slum settlements (n = 164; 91% female) were interviewed and data on age, gender, poverty indicators and life satisfaction were collected. The results showed that the level of global life satisfaction in this sample of slum residents did not significantly differ from that of a representative sample of another large Indian city. In terms of life-domain satisfaction, the slum residents were most satisfied with their social relationships and least satisfied with their financial situation. Global life satisfaction was predicted by age, income and non-monetary poverty indicators (deprivation in terms of health, education and living standards) (R2 15.4%). The current study supports previous findings showing that people living in slums tend to report higher levels of life satisfaction than one might expect given the deprivation of objective circumstances of their lives. Furthermore, the results suggest that factors other than objective poverty make life more, or less, satisfying. The findings are discussed in terms of theory about psychological adaptation to poverty.

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Adaptive Expectations and Subjective Well-being of Landfill Waste Pickers in South Africa’s Free State Province

Cited by 7 publications

References 34 publications

“I am 30 and I have nothing”: the context of reception and the lived experiences of foreign migrants working as car guards in Johannesburg's West Rand

“I am 30 and I have nothing”: the context of reception and the lived experiences of foreign migrants working as car guards in Johannesburg's West Rand

Precarious labour in Mpumalanga, South Africa: A case study of informally employed day labourers in Mbombela and Emalahleni

Life Satisfaction among the Poorest of the Poor: A Study in Urban Slum Communities in India

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