McNamara/Human Resources Laboratory (Chamber of Mines) mine hostel research
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| Kind |
author survey or fieldwork |
| Producer |
J.K. McNamara; Human Resources Laboratory |
| Coverage |
1970-1988 |
| Works using it |
3 |
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Works using this source
| Work |
As cited |
Period |
How used |
| Crush and James (1995a) |
McNamara fieldwork and attitude survey on hostel violence (McNamara 1980, 1988; McNamara and Schlemmer 1988) |
1974-1988 |
Case studies of gate-politics incidents and an independent attitude survey of Basotho versus Pondo workers. |
| Crush and James (1995b) |
McNamara and Schlemmer 1988 attitude survey, Evander gold mines |
1987-1988 |
Shows Basotho and Pondo attitudes after the 1987 gate violence. |
| McNamara (1985) |
Author's participant-observation fieldwork in mine hostels (Eastern Transvaal 1976; Free State 1978) and network studies |
1976 and 1978 |
Provides drinking-network data (39 of 46 groups same-language) underpinning the home-friend solidarity and ethnic form argument. |
| McNamara (1985) |
Human Resources Laboratory (Chamber of Mines Research Organization) unpublished research reports and interviews |
1970-1983 |
Source for interviews, work-routine data, assault and absenteeism analyses, job distributions, hostel surveys and Rhodesian worker interviews. |
| McNamara (1985) |
Investigations of specific disturbances by the author's team (1977 popularity study, 1978 Free State, 1978 Rustenburg platinum mine, 1979 West Rand/Carletonville strike) |
1977-1979 |
Used for the Wildebeestfontein shebeen conflict and the 1979 new-mine strike case studies. |
| McNamara (1985) |
Sample work-record card analysis and assault analyses on Free State and platinum mines (MacArthur et al. 1978; Connoway 1980) |
1976-1978 |
Tables on job distribution by origin and assailant status used to argue Sotho job domination and Sotho-Xhosa underground friction. |