Native Recruiting Corporation / Mine Labour Organisations records

Literature › Primary sources

Kind	chamber of mines or recruiting records
Producer	Native Recruiting Corporation / MLO
Coverage	1923-1979
Works using it	6

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Debates

Debate	Works
Cheap labour thesis and the function of the reserves	4
The mine migrant labour system: origins, recruitment, foreign labour and stabilisation	2
The state and capital: instrumentalism, autonomy and fractions of capital	2
Worker consciousness, strikes and conflict on the mines and shop floor	2
Agricultural policy, productivity, farm size and land reform	1
Agrarian transition to capitalism and the fate of the African peasantry	1
Farm labour: mechanisation, labour shedding, wages and labour control	1

Works using this source

Work	As cited	Period	How used
Beinart (1982)	Mine Labour Organisation (MLO) back files, Johannesburg (Kokstad office) and Umtata office	1923-1950	Source for monthly recruitment series 1937-45, deferred pay and remittances.
Crush (1993)	Native Recruiting Corporation (NRC) Records, Johannesburg (files NRC 1132, 1145, 1157, 1221 etc.)	1974-1978	Primary source for the Chamber's negotiations with ministers, the DBA and farmers' unions, and for the experimental recruiting scheme.
Crush (1993)	Native Recruiting Corporation Records, Pietermaritzburg (NRC Natal)	1970-1978	Source for the district-of-origin table of mineworkers (1970), monthly experimental recruiting figures, and committee meeting minutes.
Crush (1993)	Table 1: District of origin of South African mineworkers, 1970 (NRC Natal)	1970	Shows that only 12.2% of South African mineworkers came from districts closed to mine recruiting.
Jeeves and Crush (1992)	Native Recruiting Corporation Records, Summary of Replies to Questionnaire on Bantu Housing, 21 March 1974	1974	Survey evidence that only 0.7 percent of black workers lived in married quarters in 1974.
Kynoch (2000)	TEBA (The Employment Bureau of Africa) archives, NRC files A.9 Pad 1	1951-1952	Official reports on Russian intimidation and extortion of Basotho mineworkers and requests to restrict weekend visits to townships.
Massey (1983)	Mine Labour Organisations files (recruitment figures, Kimberley and Pretoria areas)	1974-1976	Recruitment totals used to doubt the 1978 announcement that urban recruiting stations had failed.
Massey (1983)	Mine Labour Organisations' Records, Mafeking (blacklisting records, Aug 1974-Feb 1975)	August 1974 - February 1975	Author's tabulation of 116 blacklisted Tswana miners' official offences to argue about a third were sacked for political reasons.
Taylor (1978)	NRC Annual Reports, Mafeking, and reports from NRC offices at Molepolole and Mafeking	1940s-1950s	Document the NRC representatives' accounts of recruiting in the Kalahari, Letlhakeng camp throughput and Basarwa recruitment, and NRC distancing from the Authorities.