Natal farm wage surveys (SRC Wages Commission and Behrmann)

Literature › Primary sources

Kind	author survey or fieldwork
Producer	University of Natal
Coverage	1962-1975
Works using it	1

Debates

Debate	Works
Farm labour: mechanisation, labour shedding, wages and labour control	1

Works using this source

Work	As cited	Period	How used
Standish (1976)	Earlier farm wage surveys of 1962 and 1965 supplied by Prof. H. I. Behrmann, Dept of Agricultural Economics, University of Natal	1962 and 1965	Baseline real cash wages of unskilled farmworkers for comparison with 1974/75 survey (Table 8).
Standish (1976)	S.R.C. Wages Commission (University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg) mail questionnaire survey of Natal farmers, Sept 1974–Nov 1975	September 1974 – November 1975	Sole basis for the paper's data on cash wages, income in kind, earnings, turnover, absenteeism, hours, labour supply adequacy, profitability and working conditions.