Chamber of Mines labour force and recruitment figures (unattributed)

Literature › Primary sources

Kind	chamber of mines or recruiting records
Producer	Chamber of Mines / mining industry
Coverage	1933-2000
Works using it	12

Debates

Debate	Works
The mine migrant labour system: origins, recruitment, foreign labour and stabilisation	5
Cheap labour thesis and the function of the reserves	4
Agrarian transition to capitalism and the fate of the African peasantry	3
Liberal vs revisionist: was apartheid functional or dysfunctional for capitalist growth?	3
Post-apartheid economic policy, governance and corruption	2
Unemployment: causes, measurement and labour market institutions	2
Did the apartheid economy fail? Growth, productivity, investment and the post-1970s crisis	1
Farm labour: mechanisation, labour shedding, wages and labour control	1
Homelands, separate development, decentralisation and removals	1
The state and capital: instrumentalism, autonomy and fractions of capital	1
Living standards, health and social policy	1

Works using this source

Work	As cited	Period	How used
Bromberger (1978)	Mining industry labour recruitment observations (gold mines 1975-77)	1975-1977	Cited as a puzzle that gold mines faced contract-breaking and labour shortages while measured unemployment rose.
Crush (1986b)	Chamber of Mines historical labour force figures, 1951-1971 (total labour force, black South African complement, foreign share)	1951-1971	Establishes the rising dependence on foreign labour before 1974.
Crush (1986c)	Mine labour force figures for 1951-1961 and foreign worker numbers at December 1973 and end 1977	1951-1977	Documents the historical rise of foreign dependence (about 80% by 1971) and the 1973-77 drop in foreign numbers and share.
Crush and McDonald (2001)	Mine workforce composition (proportion foreign labour 1990s)	1990-2000	Shows the share of foreign labour on the mines rising while total employment halved.
De Klerk (1984c)	Recruitment figures for Bophuthatswana workers in mining	1970-1976	Shows rapid rise in mine recruitment from the main seasonal labour source region.
Fedderke (2006)	Chamber of Mines data on skills composition of mining labour force	1970-1998	Shows improved average skills in mining came from shedding unskilled workers, not from adding skilled ones.
Harington et al. (1975)	Employment (man-years) by home area of African gold miners, Table I	1964-71	Provides the denominator (2,926,461 man-years) for crude rates and for Poisson expected counts.
Jeeves and Crush (1992)	Chamber of Mines data on sources of mine labour, 1933-39 (Table 3)	1933-1939	Table 3 shows rising local and foreign employment on the mines during the 1930s recovery.
Lemon (1984a)	Chamber of Mines figures on mine labour supply (foreign share, South African black employment on affiliated mines)	1962-1979	Establishes the shift from foreign to domestic labour supply in the 1970s.
Lemon (1984b)	Chamber of Mines labor and recruitment figures (unattributed series)	1962-1979	Used for numbers of South African black miners, foreign supply shares and Mozambique/Malawi share, though the source is not cited directly.
Lemon (1984c)	Chamber of Mines-affiliated mine employment and recruitment figures (unattributed series on foreign and domestic labor)	1962-1979	Documents the shift from foreign to domestic labor and the fall and rise of South African black mine employment.
Taylor (1990)	Monthly recruitment figures for Botswana 1966-1976 (seasonality)	1966-1976	Shows that the first quarter averaged 43% of annual output before stabilization, against about 25% per quarter now.