Employment by source area and mining house tables (Crush)

Literature › Primary sources

Kind	chamber of mines or recruiting records
Producer	Chamber of Mines / Teba
Coverage	1960-1993
Works using it	2

Debates

Debate	Works
The mine migrant labour system: origins, recruitment, foreign labour and stabilisation	2

Works using this source

Work	As cited	Period	How used
Crush and James (1995a)	Employment of black miners by source area and mining house, 1986-1992 (Tables 2-6, from mine-level labour statistics)	1974-1992	Shows lay-offs fell more heavily on South Africans than foreign miners, and the foreign share stabilised or rose in the 1980s.
Crush and James (1995b)	Chamber of Mines annual reports, statistical tables and employment series by source area and mining group, 1960-1993	1960-1993	Establishes foreign versus South African employment shares, retrenchment patterns by origin, and lay-offs by mine and mining house (Tables 2-6).