Industrial Wages¶

Industrial council wage rate agreements from collected wage-rate volumes in the SALDRU (Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit) series. The CSVs are AI extractions that have not been checked against the pages; use them with care.

Files¶

825 CSVs in wages/industrial_council/

Coverage¶

Two main series:

wagerates1-18.pdf (1973-1983) → 537 CSVs
ICWR1-11.pdf (1978-1988) → 288 CSVs

Content¶

Individual wage determination records specifying:

Industry/sector
Occupation/grade
Wage rates (minimum, actual)
Geographic region
Effective dates

Research Use¶

Wage-productivity analysis across sectors
Union bargaining power studies
Sectoral labor market segmentation under apartheid

Provenance¶

Source: Industrial council wage rate agreements (SALDRU series)
Digitization: extracted by the Claude Vision API, November 2025. Status: transcribed; not yet page-checked
Tracking: wages/industrial_council/digitization_progress.csv
Source PDFs: raw_archives/05_labor/industrial_wages/