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Debates

Debate Works
The mine migrant labour system: origins, recruitment, foreign labour and stabilisation 6
Liberal vs revisionist: was apartheid functional or dysfunctional for capitalist growth? 3
Agricultural policy, productivity, farm size and land reform 2
Cheap labour thesis and the function of the reserves 2
Pre-Union colonial economy, the mineral revolution and the South African War 2
Homelands, separate development, decentralisation and removals 2
Industrialisation, protection and industrial structure 2
The state and capital: instrumentalism, autonomy and fractions of capital 2
Agrarian transition to capitalism and the fate of the African peasantry 1
The job colour bar, white labour and its erosion 1
Data reliability and econometric method 1
Origins, coherence and ideology of apartheid and Afrikaner nationalism 1
Black trade unions: growth, wage effects, Wiehahn and strategy 1
Racial wage gaps, wage convergence and wage determination 1

Works using this source

Work As cited Period How used
Abedian (1982) Labour recruiting organisations in Umtata (VEZAMFA, ACRO-HANISE) wage and remittance information 1979-1980 Supplies average migrant wage, length of employment and remittance ratios (55-60%) for contract workers.
Cobbe (1986) TEBA/Chamber of Mines recruitment data for Basotho miners (via Central Bank of Lesotho Quarterly Review 111:4, Dec 1984, p. 56 and others), Table 1 1966-1983 Establishes numbers of Lesotho miners on Chamber mines and trend (plateau near 100-110,000) in Table 1.
Davies et al. (1976) Chamber of Mines estimates of tariff and railway tariff costs per ton milled 1920s-1930s Quantifies the cost burden that protection and railway restructuring imposed on mining capital.
Hilsenrath and Pogue (2012) Chamber of Mines of South Africa (COMSA) institutional history (Patent Committee 1892, concentration sub-committee 1893), via Lang (1986) 1889-1896 Shows the Chamber's role in coordinating technology diffusion and contesting patents.
Hilsenrath and Pogue (2012) Gold Metallurgy in South Africa (Adamson ed., Chamber of Mines, 1972) and Gold Metallurgy on the Witwatersrand (King ed., 1949) 1949, 1972 Technical data on amalgamation recovery rates, pulp ratios, tube-mills and the precipitation process.
Houghton and Dagut (1972) Chamber of Mines returns of Witwatersrand gold output, as quoted by Hatch and Chalmers, The Gold Mines of the Rand (1895) 1887-1895 Annual gold output in ounces and value, and 1894 Transvaal output by district.
Houghton and Dagut (1973) Chamber of Mines, Mining Survey no. 62, April 1968 1960-1966 Gives mineral reserves, output and export figures for 1960 and 1966.
Lucas (1987a) TEBA/mining-house recruiting and wage data (mine wage, miner numbers, white miners' wages, mineral prices) 1946-1978 Provides numbers of miners by country and nominal mine wages; wages of white miners and mineral prices serve as instruments.
Milburn and Cole (1957) Transvaal and Orange Free State Chamber of Mines periodical reports and newsletter The Reef 1889-1955 Identified as the output of an employers' group described as politically effective.
Pirie (1993) Transvaal Archives Depot, RRC 19 (165/03): correspondence of the Transvaal Chamber of Mines and CSAR General Manager (Price), 1903 1903 Establishes the number of migrants railed from the Cape and Natal in 1901-03, rail fares as one third of recruiting costs, and the Chamber's lobbying for lower rail fares.
Taylor (1978) WNLA offices in Francistown and Shakawe (reports) 1930s Used for the origin of recruits arriving at Francistown and Shakawe, showing the Protectorate's small share of the WNLA intake.