The link between wage labour and economic security has long been a mirage in South Africa.

But in a place like South Africa, finding economic security through wage labour was never the solution.

Second, and even more important, the crisis has not simply hit wage labour, which is the normal way of capitalism.

The exposed sector is a two-level CES where highly and lowly productive labour are complementary, but both are substitutable with minimum wage labour:

Households dependent on wage labour can afford to buy a quarter of the wheat they bought in 2007, according to the World Food Programme.

It also provides an opportunity to delink basic livelihood from wage labour, and begin to develop policies that deliver an economically secure future for all.

Non- wage labour costs actually fell 2.4 percent in France, against a 0.3 percent rise across the EU and a 1.0 percent rise in Germany.

Da earned a good wage labouring in the squire's fields.