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Chamber of Mines Annual Reports

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Kind chamber of mines or recruiting records
Producer (Transvaal / Transvaal and OFS / South African) Chamber of Mines
Coverage 1889-1993
Works using it 14

Debates

Debate Works
The mine migrant labour system: origins, recruitment, foreign labour and stabilisation 7
The state and capital: instrumentalism, autonomy and fractions of capital 5
Liberal vs revisionist: was apartheid functional or dysfunctional for capitalist growth? 3
The job colour bar, white labour and its erosion 2
Influx control, pass laws and African urbanisation 2
Origins, coherence and ideology of apartheid and Afrikaner nationalism 2
Agrarian transition to capitalism and the fate of the African peasantry 1
Homelands, separate development, decentralisation and removals 1
Industrialisation, protection and industrial structure 1
Racial wage gaps, wage convergence and wage determination 1
Worker consciousness, strikes and conflict on the mines and shop floor 1

Works using this source

Work As cited Period How used
Crush and James (1995a) Chamber of Mines Annual Reports and Statistical Tables (1988-1993), COM Review and Newsletters 1970s-1993 Supplies employment, foreign/SA labour composition, profitability, NUM membership and gold price data underpinning chapters by Crush, Nattrass, Head and Davies & Head.
Davies and Head (1995) Chamber of Mines, Annual Report 1992 1992 Source for estimate that half a million mine employees support 3.1 million dependents, underpinning the multiplier argument.
Davies and Head (1995) Chamber of Mines, unpublished data for 1993 Annual Report 1993 Supports 1993 employment figures for Basotho and other foreign workers.
Davies et al. (1976) Chamber of Mines Report of General Meeting 1931 (President's statement) 1931 Shows the Chamber's objections to export subsidies and special duties under the gold standard.
Feinberg (1993) Chamber of Mines records 1912-1913 (microfilm, A4836, 2314) and Transvaal Chamber of Mines 24th Annual Report for 1913 1912-1913 Absence of references to the Natives Land Bill is used to reject the claim that mine owners lobbied for the Act.
Frankel (1979) Transvaal Chamber of Mines, Annual Report, 1895 1895 Evidence that the Chamber pressed Kruger government to enact pass legislation.
Giliomee and Schlemmer (1985) Chamber of Mines, Ninety-third Annual Report, 1982 1973-1982 Gives the geographic origins of black gold-mine labour, showing the shift from foreign to South African recruits.
Jeeves (1975b) Chamber of Mines Annual Reports (CMAR), 1890-1906, incl. 'A Descriptive and Statistical Statement of the Gold Mining Industry of the Witwatersrand' annexure to Thirteenth Report for 1902 1890-1906 Documents Chamber requests for state help, pass laws, wage-reduction agreements, WNLA letters, low-grade mine dividend data, and 1906 correspondence with Elgin.
Lucas (1985) Transvaal and Orange Free State Chamber of Mines, Annual Report 1957 1956-57 Documents easing of European labor shortage in coal by 1956, justifying omission of pre-1956 coal white-labor observations.
Lumby (1974) Transvaal Chamber of Mines Annual Reports 1909-1939 and Award of Mining Industry Arbitration Board 1927 1909-1939 Evidence of the Chamber's opposition to protection, working costs, gold-mining statistics (Table 8-4) and stores consumed (Table 8-7).
McNamara (1985) Chamber of Mines Annual Reports (1st 1889 to 57th 1946, and 93rd for 1982 listed) 1889-1946 Main source for the provisional historical diary of conflict 1889-1972 and for labour supply history and wage cuts.
O'Meara (1978) Transvaal Chamber of Mines Annual Reports (48th, year 1937; 55th, year 1944; also 1947) 1937-1947 Documents the 1937 closed shop agreement with the MWU, its clause 17 and the 1944 GPC payment to the union.
Pirie (1993) Chamber of Mines of the South African Republic, Tenth Annual Report (Year Ended 1898); Transvaal Chamber of Mines, Fourteenth Annual Report (Year Ended 1903) 1898-1903 Documents rail tariffs and discounted batch rates for migrant labour before Union.
Yudelman and Jeeves (1986a) South African Chamber of Mines, Annual Reports (CMAR) for 1929 and 1932 (Summary of Evidence before the Low Grade Ore Commission) 1929-1932 Used for the Mozambique quota response in 1928-29 and as examples of industry-crafted data presented to commissions.
Yudelman and Jeeves (1986b) South African Chamber of Mines Annual Reports (CMAR) for 1929 and 1932 1929-1932 Cited for the Mozambique quota response in 1929 and for the summary of evidence to the Low Grade Ore Commission.