Second Report of the Commission of Inquiry into Agriculture (RP 84/1970)

Literature › Primary sources

Kind	commission or official report
Producer	Commission of Inquiry into Agriculture
Coverage	1970
Works using it	2

Debates

Debate	Works
Cheap labour thesis and the function of the reserves	2
Liberal vs revisionist: was apartheid functional or dysfunctional for capitalist growth?	2
Agrarian transition to capitalism and the fate of the African peasantry	1
Farm labour: mechanisation, labour shedding, wages and labour control	1
Data reliability and econometric method	1
The mine migrant labour system: origins, recruitment, foreign labour and stabilisation	1
Sanctions, disinvestment and the anti-apartheid movement	1
Unemployment: causes, measurement and labour market institutions	1

Works using this source

Work	As cited	Period	How used
Knight (1976b)	Second Report of the Commission of Inquiry into Agriculture (Marais Commission), RP 84/1970	1966/7-1970	Benefit-in-kind ratio and conclusions on mechanisation and labour use in agriculture.
Lemon (1984c)	Second Report of the Commission of Enquiry into Agriculture (Du Plessis Commission), RP 84/1970	1970	Quoted to show that official policy aimed to make white agriculture less dependent on non-white labour.