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author_survey_or_fieldwork: other personal observation/travel (one-off)

Literature › Primary sources
Kind author survey or fieldwork
Producer Various authors
Coverage various
Works using it 11

Debates

Debate Works
Cheap labour thesis and the function of the reserves 3
Pre-Union colonial economy, the mineral revolution and the South African War 3
Historiographical approaches 3
The mine migrant labour system: origins, recruitment, foreign labour and stabilisation 3
Liberal vs revisionist: was apartheid functional or dysfunctional for capitalist growth? 2
Agricultural policy, productivity, farm size and land reform 1
Agrarian transition to capitalism and the fate of the African peasantry 1
The job colour bar, white labour and its erosion 1
White electoral politics, delimitation and party systems 1
Farm labour: mechanisation, labour shedding, wages and labour control 1
Industrialisation, protection and industrial structure 1
Origins, coherence and ideology of apartheid and Afrikaner nationalism 1
Worker consciousness, strikes and conflict on the mines and shop floor 1

Works using this source

Work As cited Period How used
Anglin (1995) Author's participant observation 1992-1994 Implicit basis of the author's evaluative judgments about observer performance.
Bonner (1994) Author's personal observations 1976-1977 Supports the account of the alienation of African students from school history after 1976.
Harris (2002) Truth and Reconciliation Commission investigation into the destruction of public records (author's participation, 1996-1998) 1990-1998 Establishes that large-scale, systematic destruction of public and confiscated non-public records occurred 1990-1994, authorised at the highest levels.
Indicus (1909) Author's travel notes and conversations with passengers, colonists, officials and officers, Dec 1902–Mar 1903 December 1902 – March 1903 Supplies nearly all the observations and opinions on labour, race, wages, prices and politics on which the book's conclusions rest.
Indicus (1909) Personal price and wage observations (hotel, rents, land, carpenters, freight, coal) 1903 Illustrates high costs of living and wage differentials, from author's own purchases and conversations.
Johnston (1899) Author's personal observation and fieldwork in Africa 1880s-1890s First-hand experience is used for slave caravans, Algerian fusion, Kilimanjaro treaties and the Niger Delta.
McCann (2001) Author interviews and fieldwork (Twumasi-Afriyie, Kumasi 1997; Ethiopia Global 2000 visit 1998; farmer Gali Abba Gojjam) 1997-1998 Observational and interview evidence on current maize varieties, row planting, and seed recycling.
Moodie (2005) Participant observation study, Welkom mine, 1975-6 1975-1976 Notes that some white miners shared bonuses with teams after the maximum average system ended.
Nielsen (1922) Author's own first-hand observations and notes of conversations with Natives (Matabeleland, Zambesi, Rhodesian courts) c. 1890s-1922 ('nearly thirty years') Anecdotes and reported speeches of Natives are used to show that Native reasoning ability equals that of Europeans.
Olivier (1929) Author's personal observation as Colonial Office official and resident in Jamaica 1897-1913 1882-1913 The main basis for the comparative claims on Jamaican race relations and peasant development.
Pankhurst (1996) FAO WCARRD mission conference, December 1993 (author's observation) December 1993 Used as anecdotal evidence that official discourse ignored the need for new land in the north.
Petterson (1951) Author's visits and conversations in the field (Johannesburg 1945; Africa 1949; Vereeniging residents 1945) 1945, 1949 Informal local opinion that Vereeniging will become the center of South African heavy heat and power industry; general field observation underlies the descriptions.