Citation¶

Citing the Data Archive¶

If you use these datasets, please cite:

Wilse-Samson, Laurence (2026). South African Apartheid Economy Data Archive. NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. https://lwilsesamson.com/sa-apartheid-economy-data/

BibTeX¶

@misc{wilsesamson2026apartheid,
  author = {Wilse-Samson, Laurence},
  title = {South African Apartheid Economy Data Archive},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://lwilsesamson.com/sa-apartheid-economy-data/}},
  note = {Digitized historical datasets: agricultural censuses, mine labor recruiting, strikes, elections, forced removals, rainfall, labour-agent licensing, and more. 1948-1994.}
}

Associated Papers¶

Please also cite the relevant paper if you use data that was prepared for a specific analysis:

1974 Mine Labor Shock¶

Boone, Christopher and Laurence Wilse-Samson (2026). "Coalition Fracture Under Labor Scarcity: Evidence from South Africa's 1974 Mining Crisis." Working paper.

@article{boone2026labor,
  author = {Boone, Christopher and Wilse-Samson, Laurence},
  title = {Coalition Fracture Under Labor Scarcity: Evidence from South Africa's 1974 Mining Crisis},
  year = {2026},
  note = {Working paper}
}

Book¶

Wilse-Samson, Laurence (2026). The Cost of Apartheid: Labor Scarcity, White Politics, and the Fall of Racial Capitalism in South Africa, 1969–1994. Book manuscript.

@unpublished{wilsesamson2026cost,
  author = {Wilse-Samson, Laurence},
  title  = {The Cost of Apartheid: Labor Scarcity, White Politics, and the Fall of Racial Capitalism in South Africa, 1969--1994},
  year   = {2026},
  note   = {Book manuscript}
}

The strike and sanctions evidence is reported in the book.

CITATION.cff¶

Machine-readable citation metadata: CITATION.cff.

Licence¶

The project's own transcriptions, ledgers, crosswalks, panels, code and documentation are released under CC BY 4.0. Licensed and restricted material keeps its holder's terms; Licensing & Access gives the position for each dataset. When you use a dataset, cite the original source (census volume, Gazette, report or periodical) as well as this archive.

Contact¶

Laurence Wilse-Samson NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service lw3387@nyu.edu