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Chamber of Mines submission to 1944 commission on native wages

Literature › Primary sources

Kind chamber of mines or recruiting records
Producer Chamber of Mines
Coverage 1944
Works using it 2

Debates

Debate Works
Cheap labour thesis and the function of the reserves 2
Sanctions, disinvestment and the anti-apartheid movement 2
Finance, capital flight, the 1985 debt crisis and banking 1
Liberal vs revisionist: was apartheid functional or dysfunctional for capitalist growth? 1
Post-apartheid economic policy, governance and corruption 1

Works using this source

Work As cited Period How used
Bond (2004) Chamber of Mines testimony to a 1944 Pretoria commission 1944 Used to show mining capital's dependence on migrant labour paid below urban subsistence.
Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Reparation and Rehab... (1998) Chamber of Mines Native Labour Department 1895 migration control regulations and Chamber of Mines submission to the 1944 commission on 'native wages' 1895; 1944 Shows mine owners sought labour control and relied on subsidiary subsistence in the reserves, prefiguring the pass laws.