WNLA / Mine Labour Organisations (Wenela) Annual Reports¶

Literature › Primary sources


Kind	chamber of mines or recruiting records
Producer	Witwatersrand Native Labour Association
Coverage	1902-1978
Works using it	5

Debates¶

Debate	Works
The mine migrant labour system: origins, recruitment, foreign labour and stabilisation	3
The state and capital: instrumentalism, autonomy and fractions of capital	3
Cheap labour thesis and the function of the reserves	2
Liberal vs revisionist: was apartheid functional or dysfunctional for capitalist growth?	1
Sanctions, disinvestment and the anti-apartheid movement	1
Worker consciousness, strikes and conflict on the mines and shop floor	1

Works using this source¶

Work	As cited	Period	How used
Horrell et al. (1972)	Mine Labour Organisations Limited (WNLA) Report for the year 1970	1970	Gives origin of African mine labour, showing 75.86 per cent foreign.
Jeeves (1987)	WNLA Annual Reports, 1934-45	1934-1945	Source for levels of tropical recruiting and WNLA investments.
Massey (1983)	WNLA Annual Report 1976 (turnover rate)	1976	Cited for the 137 percent annual turnover rate of black gold miners.
Massey (1983)	WNLA Annual Reports 1971-1977 (annual wage and real earnings index 1972-1977)	1972-1977	Table 4 shows the sharp rise in black miners' real wages after 1972, linked to internalization of labor supply.
Massey (1983)	WNLA Annual Reports 1972-1977 (desertion rates)	1972-1977	Table 5 shows desertion rising from 2.7% to 11.2% after repeal of the Masters and Servants laws.
Massey (1983)	Witwatersrand Native Labour Association (WNLA) Annual Reports (1921-1977 series on foreign share of black miners)	1921-1977	Supplies the series on the percent of black miners from foreign sources plotted in Figure 1, used to show foreign labor as an expendable reserve.
Yudelman and Jeeves (1986a)	WNLA Annual Reports, 1902-18, 1928-39 / 1934-45 / 1970-8 / 1974-8	1902-1978	Document fluctuations in recruiting levels by supplying area, tropical recruiting levels and the withdrawals of the 1970s.
Yudelman and Jeeves (1986b)	WNLA Annual Reports, 1902-18, 1928-39, 1934-45, 1970-8, 1974-8	1902-1978	Used for fluctuations in recruiting levels by source area, tropical recruitment levels, and the 1970s losses of Malawi and Mozambique supplies.