My PhD was on racial inequality in South Africa during the Apartheid period. It was published by Routledge as 'Race, Class and the Changing Division of Labour Under Apartheid' https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203440377.
My research addresses debates about occupational and earnings inequality in cities and how it relates to both racial inequality and the geography of inequality. Here is a selection of publications:
Crankshaw, O. (2017) ‘Social Polarisation in Global Cities: Measuring changes in earnings and occupational inequality’, Regional Studies 51(11), pp.1612-1621. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2016.1222072.
Crankshaw, O. and Borel-Saladin, J. (2014) ‘Does De-Industrialisation Cause Social Polarisation in Global Cities?’, Environment & Planning A 46(9), pp.1852–1872. http://dx.doi.org/10.1068/a130018p
Crankshaw, O. (2014) ‘Causal Mechanisms, Job Search and the Labour Market Spatial Mismatch: A realist criticism of the neo-positivist method’, The Journal of Critical Realism 13(5), pp.498–519. http://dx.doi.org/10.1179/1476743014Z.00000000041
Crankshaw, O. (2012) ‘Deindustrialization, Professionalisation and Racial Inequality in Cape Town’, Urban Affairs Review 48(6), pp.836-862. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1078087412451427
Borel-Saladin, J. and Crankshaw, O. (2009) ‘Social Polarisation or Professionalisation? Another look at theory and evidence on deindustrialisation and the rise of the service sector’, Urban Studies 46(3), pp.645-664. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0042098008100999
Crankshaw, O. (2008) ‘Race, Space and the Post-Fordist Spatial Order of Johannesburg’, Urban Studies 45(8), pp.1692-1711. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0042098008091497
Crankshaw, O. (2005) ‘Class, Race and Residence in Black Johannesburg, 1923-1970’, Journal of Historical Sociology 18(4), pp.353-392. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-6443.2005.00261.x
Beall, J., Crankshaw, O. and Parnell, S. (2002) Uniting a Divided City: Governance and social exclusion in Johannesburg. Earthscan, London. http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9781853839160/
Crankshaw O. and White, C. (1995) ‘Racial Desegregation and Inner City Decay in Johannesburg’, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 19(4), pp.622-638. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2427.1995.tb00531.x