Chamber of Mines and recruiting organisation records (general/historical)

Literature › Primary sources

Kind	chamber of mines or recruiting records
Producer	Chamber of Mines / WNLA / NRC
Coverage	1887-1980s
Works using it	3

Project holdings

Records of this kind are held in the project archive under research-use-only terms; no data from them are published here. See Licensing & Access.

Debates

Debate	Works
The job colour bar, white labour and its erosion	3
Cheap labour thesis and the function of the reserves	2
The mine migrant labour system: origins, recruitment, foreign labour and stabilisation	2
Farm labour: mechanisation, labour shedding, wages and labour control	1
Influx control, pass laws and African urbanisation	1
Liberal vs revisionist: was apartheid functional or dysfunctional for capitalist growth?	1

Works using this source

Work	As cited	Period	How used
Kok et al. (2006)	Bilateral labour agreements and recruitment records (ZAR–Portuguese East Africa 1897, Modus Vivendi 1901, Nyasaland 1938, Botswana/Lesotho 1973)	1896–1977	Described via Jeeves, Van der Horst, Breytenbach to show historical mine labour supply and recruitment.
Roth (1995b)	Recruiting-organisation (WNLA) and Chamber of Mines records on infrastructure, transport and medical provision in the Northern Territories and High Commission territories	to c.1955	Used to show that recruiting agents built roads, camps, air services and medical systems, a side-benefit of migrant recruitment.
Turrell (1986)	Chamber of Mines and recruiting organisation records (Native Labour Department, Rand Native Labour Association, WNLA, Native Recruiting Corporation) as used by Jeeves	1890-1919	Underpins Jeeves' periodisation of attempts to create a recruiting monopsony and the role of independent recruiters.