Chamber of Mines Human Sciences Laboratory attitude survey of ex-miners (Masipa)

Literature › Primary sources

Kind	author survey or fieldwork
Producer	Chamber of Mines Human Sciences Laboratory
Coverage	c.1973-74
Works using it	2

Debates

Debate	Works
Farm labour: mechanisation, labour shedding, wages and labour control	2
The mine migrant labour system: origins, recruitment, foreign labour and stabilisation	2
Unemployment: causes, measurement and labour market institutions	2
Data reliability and econometric method	1

Works using this source

Work	As cited	Period	How used
Knight (1976a)	Chamber of Mines Human Sciences Laboratory attitude survey (M.M. Masipa, 'Attitudes towards gold mining of ex-miners in other occupations', mimeo)	c.1973-74	Shows pay was the main reason for dissatisfaction and what would lure ex-miners back, supporting wage-increase-as-recruitment argument.
Knight (1976b)	Chamber of Mines Human Sciences Laboratory attitude survey of ex-miners (M. Masipa, mimeo)	c.1973-74	Survey of about 240 Africans not employed in mines shows pay was the main dissatisfaction and improved pay the main inducement to return.