Chamber of Mines Statistical Tables

Literature › Primary sources

Kind	chamber of mines or recruiting records
Producer	Chamber of Mines of South Africa
Coverage	1920-1993
Works using it	4

Debates

Debate	Works
Did the apartheid economy fail? Growth, productivity, investment and the post-1970s crisis	3
Industrialisation, protection and industrial structure	3
Liberal vs revisionist: was apartheid functional or dysfunctional for capitalist growth?	3
The mine migrant labour system: origins, recruitment, foreign labour and stabilisation	1

Works using this source

Work	As cited	Period	How used
Davies and Head (1995)	Chamber of Mines, Statistical Tables (1993)	1986-1993	Provides wage band 1-8 employment totals and SADC/foreign worker employment by country, showing across-the-board job losses since 1986.
Moll (1991b)	Chamber of Mines of South Africa, 1988 Statistical Tables (Johannesburg, 1989), p. 12S – gold-bearing ore milled	1920-1974 (and later)	Tons of ore milled replace ounces of gold as the gold-sector output indicator in the 'recalculated' GDP.
Moll (1991c)	Chamber of Mines of South Africa, 1988 Statistical Tables (Johannesburg, 1989), p. 12S – gold-bearing ore milled	c.1920-1985	Tons of ore milled is used to recalculate real gold-sector output and hence the 'recalculated' GDP growth rates.
Moll (1991d)	Chamber of Mines of South Africa, 1988 Statistical Tables (Johannesburg, 1989), p. 12S – gold-bearing ore milled series	c.1920-1974	Tons of ore milled replaces ounces of fine gold as the gold-sector output indicator to construct the 'recalculated' real GDP.