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Debates

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Liberal vs revisionist: was apartheid functional or dysfunctional for capitalist growth? 16
Cheap labour thesis and the function of the reserves 15
Homelands, separate development, decentralisation and removals 15
The mine migrant labour system: origins, recruitment, foreign labour and stabilisation 12
Agricultural policy, productivity, farm size and land reform 10
Farm labour: mechanisation, labour shedding, wages and labour control 10
Unemployment: causes, measurement and labour market institutions 8
Why apartheid ended: reform, transition and elite bargaining 7
Sanctions, disinvestment and the anti-apartheid movement 7
Black trade unions: growth, wage effects, Wiehahn and strategy 6
Influx control, pass laws and African urbanisation 5
Agrarian transition to capitalism and the fate of the African peasantry 4
The job colour bar, white labour and its erosion 4
Education, Bantu Education and skills 4
Post-apartheid economic policy, governance and corruption 4
Resistance and liberation movements 4
Racial wage gaps, wage convergence and wage determination 4
Pre-Union colonial economy, the mineral revolution and the South African War 3
Did the apartheid economy fail? Growth, productivity, investment and the post-1970s crisis 3
Data reliability and econometric method 3
Origins, coherence and ideology of apartheid and Afrikaner nationalism 3
The state and capital: instrumentalism, autonomy and fractions of capital 3
Worker consciousness, strikes and conflict on the mines and shop floor 3
Coloured Labour Preference policy in the Western Cape 2
Industrialisation, protection and industrial structure 2
Living standards, health and social policy 2
Census, race classification and demographic data 1
Finance, capital flight, the 1985 debt crisis and banking 1
White electoral politics, delimitation and party systems 1
Historiographical approaches 1

Works using this source

Work As cited Period How used
(ed.) et al. (1983) Nyanga East squatter sample survey (routine questions by Advice Office interviewers) July-September 1981 Gives profile of length of residence, legal status, employment, origins, marital status and children of the squatters (Tables 1-12).
(organiser) et al. (2008) Author's accounts of Congolese infrastructure projects (Inga I/II, Maluku steelworks, Kimpese cement, Inga-Shaba line, Gécamines expansion) 1960s-2007 Project-by-project narrative of irregularities is offered as grounds for cancelling Congolese debt.
Africa (1976) Survey by the Division of Agricultural Engineering, Department of Agricultural Technical Services, 1968; J.J. Bruwer figures 1968 Shows that few African tractor operators had formal training and that most workers on machines were untrained.
Anderson et al. (2001) Guguletu High School Study (1998) 1998 Retrospective schooling histories used to document grade repetition and delay by grade (Table 2) and the link between age and matric scores and between parental schooling and child schooling.
Atkinson (2007) Free State civil society organisation study (Anja Benseler) 2002 Assesses the scale and capacity of NGOs serving farm workers after the Rural Foundation closed.
Atkinson (2007) HSRC 2003 survey of 64 farmers and 64 farm workers in nine localities, Free State and Northern Cape (Atkinson 2003, 'Life on the farm') 2002-2003 Provides evidence on paternalism, residence preferences, training, wages, services and farm ownership ambitions of farmers and workers.
Atkinson (2007) Heunis (1993) Bloemfontein-area farm labour survey (24 farms) 1993 Data on contracts, wages, workers' councils and anticipated minimum-wage retrenchments.
Atkinson (2007) Nkuzi Development Association and Social Surveys (2005) National Evictions Survey 1994-2004 Estimates of evictions versus land reform beneficiaries (Table 4.1).
Atkinson (2007) Robertson (1988) MSc thesis survey of farm labour, Lions River, Lower Tugela, Elliot (1987) 1987 Data on reasons for staying/leaving, wage variation, and farmer responses to minimum wages.
Baldwin (1975) Unpublished survey from Charles Johnson Memorial Hospital, Nqutu c.1970s Shows the migratization of reserve-based labour among 517 families, most breadwinners working far away.
Bell (1973) Author's questionnaire survey of East London firms, 1961 1961 Impression that substantial firms would relocate if possible.
Best (1971) Field questionnaires and unpublished municipal office data, Brits, Mafeking, Rustenburg (Table 4) August 1969 Gives employment percentages by industry and race, used to show industry is minor except in Brits.
Bromberger (1978) Farm labour studies: Evans (1976) Viljoenskroon; van der Vliet and Bromberger (1977) Albany district 1970s Evidence of female casual farm workers having as much work as they want or reducing work, offered as indications of voluntary non-work.
Bromberger (1978) Maree and Cornell (1978) Crossroads squatter sample survey; Maree (1977); Desmond (1978) Limehill 1977-1978 Evidence on informal sector involvement (about 10% of economically active males) and unemployment in resettlement and squatter areas.
Bromberger (1978) Small-scale unemployment surveys: Market Research Africa (1977) African Omnireef Unemployment Study; Loots (1978); Simkins (1978c) urban and rural surveys 1976-1978 Provide evidence on age, education, migrant status, support and local unemployment rates (16%-42%).
Budlender (1984) Author's case study of a Kirkwood citrus farm (farmer interview/farm study) c. 1969-early 1980s Describes the shift from flood to microjet irrigation, labour reduction and growing reliance on female labour on one farm.
Budlender (1984) Nelson, J. 'A Survey of Technical Change and Employment in the South African Cane Industry', BSc Agric. Economics, Univ. of Natal, 1983 (unpublished), interviews with 108 farmers 1972-1982 Primary data for the sugar case study on mechanisation by process and the labour-market explanation of changing technique.
Budlender (1984) Scharf (Wilfred) researcher information and findings on seven Stellenbosch wine farms 1940s-1983 Basis of third case study on irrigation, chemical weeding, trellis vines and labour composition on seven wine farms.
Cobbe (1986) Basic Agricultural Services Programme surveys 1979/80 (Winch, Agri-Economic Farm Situation in the Lowlands and Foothills of Lesotho, 1981; via Cobbe 1982) 1979/80 Shows average crop output of M85-130 per year, so agriculture cannot sustain households.
Cobbe (1986) Cobbe, 'Modeling a Labour-Reserve Economy: Lesotho' (ASA 1984) multiplier estimates 1984 Provides a crude 1.25-1.85 multiplier on migrant earnings used to estimate income loss from migrant reductions.
Crush (1989b) Leger and Mothibeli, 'South African Gold Miners' Perceptions of Safety 1984 to 1987', Mine Safety and Health Congress paper 1984-1987 Cited for claim that union existence has curbed arbitrary discipline by white bosses underground.
Crush (1992) Author's fieldwork at rural Natal recruiting offices, April 1984 April 1984 Shows blue letters still in use after the Chamber officially withdrew the TEBA 463 card.
Crush and James (1995a) Pathaut study autopsy data, National Centre for Occupational Health, 1975-1991 1975-1991 Autopsy data linking years of service to TB prevalence.
Crush and James (1995a) Payze focus-group interviews in three mine hostels (1992-93) for Goldstone Commission 1992-1993 Qualitative evidence on hostel conditions and residents' accommodation preferences.
Crush and Namasasu (1985) Authors' 1980 survey of four Basotho villages 1980-1981 Establishes household participation in Tree Planting Day, fuel use, fuel gathering time and attitudes toward woodlots.
Crush and Namasasu (1985) Gay (1978) domestic fuel sources survey and Best (1978) three-village energy study c. 1975-1978 Provide seasonal dung use and woman-hours of fuel collection for comparison with the authors' survey.
Crush and Wellings (1983) M. Mphuthing, 'Prostitution in Lesotho', National University of Lesotho, Roma, 1980 1980 Study of 40 prostitutes used to describe social conditions of vice associated with tourism.
De Klerk (1990) South African Agricultural Union (SAAU) 1983 financial survey of farmers, 'Die Finansieele Posisie van Boere in die R.S.A.' (1984) 1970-1984 (survey 1983) Provides liquidity and current ratios, debt-burden and critical-debt thresholds, numbers of farmers in financial distress, non-farm investment and part-time farming shares.
Dubb (2012) Author's survey of SSG homesteads in Madwaleni and Shikishela wards (Mpukunyoni), 2010-2012 2010-2012 Establishes the socio-economic profile, asset quartiles, land, income-source and credit-uptake patterns of SSG homesteads.
Evans (1997) Socio-economic housing surveys by municipal NEADs (Johannesburg 1950, Springs/Benoni 1951) and Johannesburg NEAD survey of Western Areas 1950–1953 Used as evidence of the 'scientific' categorization of Africans on which housing policy relied.
Freund (1987b) Surveys of white and black opinion relied on by Lipton 1970s-1980s Freund treats them as probably accurate on white attitudes but very dubious on black views, and as proof only of support for cautious change.
Giliomee and Schlemmer (1985) Area studies of five homelands (Transkei, Ciskei, KwaZulu, Bophuthatswana, Venda) and homeland national accounts 1960s-1981 Documents GDP and GNI growth, dependence on outside earnings, unemployment and urban-rural gaps.
Giliomee and Schlemmer (1985) KwaZulu rural survey of eight districts (n=320) and Transkei research (Haines et al. 1984) c.1983-4 Shows payments for land, pensions and dues to chiefs and indunas and low community participation.
Greenberg (1983) Free Market Foundation surveys among Africans (as reported) c. 1980 Reported as showing African partiality to 'Marxist rhetoric', prompting a market-based counter-idiom.
Greenberg (1987) Aninka Claasen, Field Research Report and interview documents (Mapumulo offices) not stated Supports reports of ending labour recruiting in KwaZulu districts and of the rush of work-seekers at recruiters' announcements.
Hallett (1984) Richmond Farm survey (27 per cent sample) by Diakonia and Black Sash c.1979 Establishes the residence length, employment and urban tenure of squatter families, reported via SPP Vol 4.
Harvey (1974) Author's survey/interviews of eleven British firms in South Africa and London, 1972-73 1972-1973 Underpins most claims on wages, mechanization, migrant labour, white labour supply, black promotion and profitability among British firms.
Harvey (1974) Productivity and Wages Association survey for UKSATA, quoted in Guardian, 14 March 1973 1973 Evidence that firms' belief in their beneficial role is largely unfounded, flagged as of doubtful value.
Hirschsohn (1998) Author's doctoral research: clothing and auto industry case studies (MIT PhD) unclear The article does not draw explicitly on this fieldwork; it is mentioned only in the author biography as the basis of his dissertation.
Hoffman and Todd (2000) Roux (1990) veld condition survey of farmers, extension officers and range scientists 1990 Prior survey showing extension officers' veld scores lie between farmers' and range scientists', supporting rater reliability.
Horrell (1968) Author's own calculations from official lists and tables (listed/banned persons, criminal statistics) 1966-1967 Counts listed and banned persons by race as at 7 December 1967.
Horrell (1970) Port Elizabeth church survey of Coloured attitudes (reported in Star, 27 September) 1969 Survey results of just under 200 respondents used to describe Coloured attitudes to apartheid and parties.
Horrell et al. (1972) M. L. Edelstein survey of 200 Soweto matriculation pupils (published Sunday Times, 11 Sept 1971) 1970 Used to describe African youth attitudes to race, government and education.
Horrell et al. (1972) SAIRR-commissioned socio-economic studies: Cleary (Port Elizabeth municipal Director of Housing) report; Roux & St Leger, Grahamstown: Fingo Village; Whisson & Weil, Domestic Servants; Maasdorp & Pillay, The East Rand Indian Community 1969-1971 Provides poverty and wage levels for Coloured, African and Indian households.
Horrell et al. (1972) World newspaper pilot poll of African opinion (Worrall and Bertelsman questionnaire), Nov 1970 November 1970 Illustrates African elite attitudes.
Houghton and Dagut (1973) Macmillan's samples: Grahamstown 1915, a Karroo congregation, Johannesburg Public Relief Board/Rand Aid records 1915-1919 Tests the official 1917 estimate of 106,518 poor whites with local samples.
Inman and Rubinfeld (2008) Author's Data Appendix for Table 3 (demographics, incomes, teacher training years, salaries, m, Z) c. 1994-2001 Underlies the calibration of the elite and majority populations, incomes, teacher training years, the common salary S and the trained-provider share m.
Johnson (1982) Author's social survey of Umtata whites, early 1978 (100 respondents, random stratified, questionnaires) early 1978 Shows white residents' attitudes to desegregated schooling and links them to apartheid myths and the preservation of status.
Katzen (1974) Bell's sample survey of businessmen's evaluation of chosen industrial sites c.1960s-1970s (not stated) Tests whether entrepreneurs make poor location decisions; finds more perceived siting mistakes in rural and border areas.
Keegan (1986) Keegan, Rural Transformations in Industrialising South Africa (1986) and related articles (author's prior research) 1850-1950s Fuller documentation of the sharecropping, accumulation and capital claims is delegated to the author's earlier book and articles.
Kirsten et al. (2007) Authors' spreadsheet of NRA, RRA and CTE estimates (Anderson et al. 2007/2008 methodology) 1961-2005 Basis for all NRA, RRA and CTE figures, tables and figures presented.
Knight (1976b) Maree and de Vos survey of four districts of Ciskei and Transkei, 1965 and 1968 1965, 1968 Only sample survey of Homeland unemployment and underemployment; yields rates over 20%.
Knight (1976b) Redelinghuys, HSRC 1974 study of Tswana work-seekers at labour bureaux, 1971/2 1971/2 Evidence on factors determining length of unemployment between contracts.
Kraak (1995) Kraak (1991a) study of enterprise training courses (e.g. the '6-M' course) c.1991 Author's own study used to claim employers seek ideological and social skills over technical competence and train workers toward free-market values.
Kraak (1995) NTB/HSRC (1985) survey of employer apprenticeship recruitment, Investigation into the Training of Artisans in South Africa 1985 Table 4 reports the share of employers using each recruitment method, taken as evidence of reliance on local/employee-network recruitment that favours Whites.
Lemon (1982) PFP commissioned poll, late 1980 late 1980 Cited as showing white discontent with government economic performance, shaping PFP's 'bread and butter' campaign.
Lemon (1995) Survey of nine secondary schools in Harare (carried out by Paul Chatterton) c. 1991 Gives data on levies, catchment areas, class sizes, teacher:pupil ratios and GCE pass rates used to show persisting inequalities in Zimbabwean schools.
Lewis (1984a) Henderson survey of 16 families in Victoria East, 1929 (reported in D. Wilson, South African Outlook, 1931) 1929 Corroborates the grain consumption estimate for a family.
Malherbe and Segal (2001a) Fieldwork and research by Robin Lee and Paul Semark (not otherwise described) 1999-2000 Unspecified fieldwork underpinning the study; nature and extent are not described.
Maller (1994) Volkswagen South Africa (Uitenhage) case study: interviews, worker survey responses, and analysis of JUMEC meetings c. 1990-1992 (not stated precisely) Establishes how NUMSA shop stewards combine opposition and participation through joint committees and shop-floor communication.
Maree (1985) Author's primary-source research for Ph.D. thesis (UCT) on the independent unions 1970s Underlies the narrative of the origins, strategies, setbacks and recovery of the independent unions in the 1970s; references omitted.
Massey (1983) Author's interviews with 123 Botswana mineworkers, 1977 1977 Interview sample supporting the claim that miners attribute disturbances to low wages and see whites and owners as main beneficiaries.
Mazower (1990) Farm Labour Advisory Board, Tabulated Results of Questionnaires (1\HWK 3\2\2\1 2\16\5) c.1941-1942 Used to estimate share of kraalheads obliged to work in Lions River.
McGrath et al. (2004a) World Bank/Greater Johannesburg surveys (Chandra et al. 2000a, 2000b), BMR (Martins & Van Wyk 2002), P-E Corporate Services (2001) 1999–2002 Compared in Tables 7 and 9 to estimate aggregate training rates (20-30 per cent) and mode of training.
McIntyre et al. (1995) Blecher and McIntyre (1994) research expenditure; Bunting (1994) training expenditure (HER Technical Papers 6 and 7) 1991/92-1992 Estimate health research and health personnel training expenditure to complete the national expenditure total.
Murray (1980) Ashton (1946) and Sheddick (1948) surveys of Southern Sotho wards; Sheddick, Land Tenure in Basutoland (HMSO 1954) 1940s Cited as comparative ward studies modelled on Schapera; Sheddick's explanation of child-rearing by grandparents is rejected.
Murray (1980) Kooijman, Social and Economic Change in a Tswana Village (Bokaa), 1978 1970s Supports the claim that paternal and maternal kin merge into a single kindred in outlying Tswana communities.
Murray (1980) Murray's Lesotho household sample, 1974 (150 households), 'Keeping House in Lesotho', Ph.D. thesis, Cambridge 1976 1974 Shows the prevalence of three-generation households and links through women versus men, and the persistence of agnatic residential alignments.
Murray (1987) Robertson's fieldwork and case-study data on African share contracts (Lesotho, Ghana, Sudan, Senegambia) to 1980s Detailed comparative investigation of specific share contracts underpins his argument on flexibility of share-cropping.
Nattrass (1977) G. Lenta, 'The Economic Structure of KwaZulu' (unpublished PhD thesis, Natal, 1977), township informal sector survey 1975 Small impressionistic survey illustrating the composition of the informal sector (food and liquor trading).
Nattrass and Seekings (2012a) Nattrass and Seekings (2012), Differentiation within the South African Clothing Industry (CSSR working paper) c. 2012 Companion study cited for the claims that party firms are more capital/skill-intensive and that retailers import cheap clothing.
Phakathi (2012) Phakathi (2011) DPhil thesis, University of Oxford: ethnographic study of worker responses to work reorganisation c. 2011 Cited, not used directly, for the finding that post-apartheid consent to new work practices can embody soft-touch coercion.
Pogue (2006) Dobreva et al. (2005) plastics industry study and structured interviews, Ekurhuleni 2005 Contemporary illustration of lack of collaboration in the concluding chapter.
Poswa (1994) Khangela Brewery case study (author's 1991-1992 study of worker participation initiatives; Poswa 1993 unpublished dissertation, University of Natal Durban) 1991-1992 Supplies the paper's only primary evidence on workers' perceptions of participation schemes and their propensity to participate, and supports the claim that participation extends managerial control.
Sato (2012) Todes and Krone [1990], The Case for a Landed Development Strategy for Weenen Households Affected by Removals (survey of 70 households, Mngwenya valley, 1989) 1989 Supplies household survey findings on multiple income sources and livestock holdings, supporting the livelihoods argument.
Schmidt (1975) Schmidt, Ph.D. dissertation, 'The South African Regional System: political independence in an interacting space economy' (UNISA, 1974) 1974 Referred to as the author's underlying empirical analysis for the claim that black cultural transformation in the white core cannot be prevented.
Sharp and West (1984) West 1984 and Sharp 1984 Carnegie conference papers; West 1971 1971-1984 Based on fieldwork, these support claims about tied company housing, squatting, and the impoverishment of reserve dwellers.
Siebert (1987b) W. S. Siebert (1975), The Relative Pay of White and Non-White Workers in South Africa, unpublished PhD thesis, LSE post-war to 1975 Cited for details on mobility restrictions and Wage Board behaviour in 1961/2.
Simkins (1981) Fox and Back 1937 preliminary survey of Ciskei and Transkei agriculture and nutrition 1937 One of four sources of herd-size distribution data for the cattle ownership analysis.
Simkins (n.d.) Graaff field work on homeland settlement types Not specified Named as the fieldwork needed to separate peri-urban, dense settlement and rural population inside the homelands.
Simkins and Van Heyningen (1989) Simkins doctoral thesis on demographic base for black South Africans since 1960 (University of Natal, 1984) 1970s Supports claim that 1970s extra-marital fertility was about half of marital fertility.
Sitas et al. (1984) Author survey of 14 major Durban manufacturers, 1974-78 and 1979-83 (C. Shaw, semi-structured questionnaire) 1974-1983 Establishes patterns of retrenchment, rationalisation, takeovers, short-time and managerial attitudes in the downswings.
Sitas et al. (1984) Natal Regional Survey: The African Factory Worker (University of Natal, 1946 study; published 1950) 1946 Shows Dunlop's best-paid African workers suffered malnutrition, low wages and poor housing.
Spandau (1980b) Spandau, Labour Research Report No. 22, Dept of Business Economics, University of the Witwatersrand, September 1979 (projection model for gold mines 1978-1995) 1978-1995 Source of the projected shift of gold mine employees from unskilled to semi-skilled ranks.
Stavrou (1988) Stavrou (1987) Natal Midlands employment and migration survey 1986 Provides findings on labour shortages, the labourer-to-tractor ratio, dependency ratio and skill composition.
Steward (2004b) Opinion surveys of black South African attitudes to sanctions (unnamed) 1980s (unspecified) Asserts that a sizable majority of black South Africans opposed sanctions.
Swilling (1987) Author's own unpublished research and fieldwork (MA dissertation on the Eastern Cape, 1979-1986; research papers) 1979-1986 Forthcoming dissertation cited as the place where the Eastern Cape claims will be substantiated.
Switzer (1990) Content-analysis coding of the Imvo sample (Nxumalo 1984 Rhodes University honours study, recoded by the author) sample drawn from 1919-1929 Supplies the item counts and percentages in Figure 1 and Tables 1-3 (368 items in seven categories, reclassified into three).
Taylor (1990) Taylor 1982b PhD thesis data on 1976 contract length (ten months away, seven at home) 1976 Baseline for comparing average contract and home-leave length in 1976 with 1985.
Venter et al. (2000) Scottish Law Commission survey of house owners in housing estates; Law Reform Commission of Western Australia Report on Restrictive Covenants (1997) 1997-2000 Reported consultation results indicate public support for retaining covenants.
Vink et al. (2012) Van Niekerk et al. (2011), views of Eastern Cape smallholder farmers on extension 2011 Evidence of present-day smallholder views and the breakdown of extension and support services in former homelands.
Wessels (2011) Department of Agriculture helicopter and field verification visits (2008) 2008 Informal validation of the satellite degradation product, with positive results in some areas and conflicting results in others.
Wilkins and Strydom (1978) Broederbond membership lists compiled by the authors (Appendix 1 and Appendix 2) c.1962-1978 Names, ages, occupations and branch data used to identify members in government, business, education and security services.
Wittenberg (2003a) Wittenberg and McIntosh (1992) Local Government Policy Project report; author's participation as UDF Secretary 1992 Earlier unpublished material underpinning the sections on pre-1994 decentralisation, RDACs, NCM, and the Pietermaritzburg case study.
Wotshela (2004) Author's doctoral thesis, 'Homeland Consolidation, Resettlement and Local Politics in the Border and the Ciskei Region', DPhil Oxford 2001 1960-1996 Underlies the article's main arguments and is cited for most narrative and archival detail.