TEBA database / Manpower Data Centre records

Literature › Primary sources

Kind	chamber of mines or recruiting records
Producer	The Employment Bureau of Africa
Coverage	1896-1996
Works using it	3

Debates

Debate	Works
The mine migrant labour system: origins, recruitment, foreign labour and stabilisation	3
Cheap labour thesis and the function of the reserves	1

Works using this source

Work	As cited	Period	How used
Crush and James (1995a)	Teba operational data and Manpower Data Centre (Rowett)	1988-1994	Figures on recruitment decline, payments and voter database.
Crush and James (1995b)	Teba Manpower Data Centre records and Teba estimates of employment histories	early 20th century-1990s	Illustrates the surveillance capacity of the computerised record system.
Crush and James (1995b)	Teba internal recruitment and payment statistics (Rowett)	1988-1994	Documents the decline of recruitment and Teba's changing functions.
Harington et al. (2004)	TEBA (The Employment Bureau of Africa) database of annual recruitment records and home addresses, by up to twenty territories	1896-1996	Supplies the annual black labour force numbers by territory of origin that underlie Figures 1, 2, 4-7 and the analysis of the major supply areas.