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Industrial Legislation (Botha) Commission 1951

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Kind commission or official report
Producer Botha Commission
Coverage 1948-1951
Works using it 3

Debates

Debate Works
Black trade unions: growth, wage effects, Wiehahn and strategy 2
Cheap labour thesis and the function of the reserves 1
The job colour bar, white labour and its erosion 1
Worker consciousness, strikes and conflict on the mines and shop floor 1

Works using this source

Work As cited Period How used
Budeli et al. (2008) Report of the Industrial Relations Commission of Enquiry (Botha Commission), UG 62 of 1951 1948-1951 Establishes the Commission's recommendations on recognising but segregating black unions, restricting strikes and barring political activity, which the 1953 and 1956 statutes followed.
De Clercq (1979) Botha Commission of 1951 (Industrial Legislation Commission) 1951 Evidence that the state sought to bring African unions under separate conciliation machinery.
Moodie (1986) Industrial Legislation Commission (Botha Commission) Evidence, Transvaal Archives (K18) 1949 Marks's and Majoro's testimony on trade unionism, tribal organisations and the isibonda.