Botha Industrial Legislation Commission (UG 62/1951)

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Kind	commission or official report
Producer	Industrial Legislation Commission
Coverage	1949-1951
Works using it	2

Debates

Debate	Works
Liberal vs revisionist: was apartheid functional or dysfunctional for capitalist growth?	2
Did the apartheid economy fail? Growth, productivity, investment and the post-1970s crisis	1
Origins, coherence and ideology of apartheid and Afrikaner nationalism	1
The state and capital: instrumentalism, autonomy and fractions of capital	1
Black trade unions: growth, wage effects, Wiehahn and strategy	1

Works using this source

Work	As cited	Period	How used
Carter (1958)	Industrial Legislation Commission of Enquiry Report (U.G. 62/1951), Witwatersrand Mine Native Wages Commission (1944), Inter-departmental Committee on Urban Natives (1942)	1942-1951	Used to show official views on African trade union recognition preceding the Native Labour (Settlement of Disputes) Act.
Lichtenstein (2004)	Report of the Industrial Legislation Commission of Enquiry (Botha Commission), U.G. 62-1951, incl. Table 23A	1949-1951	Supplies manufacturing employment figures by race, counts and classification of African unions, SATLC affiliate membership, and the Commission's reasoning for rejecting mixed unions.
Lichtenstein (2004)	SATLC, Industrial Legislation Commission: Recommendations, Comments, Evidence (microfilm, reel 4), LAS-NWU, incl. testimony of Makabeni, Maobo, Makoba, Rutherford, Downes	1949-1952	Testimony of African unionists and SATLC representatives shows demands for equal recognition and paternalist or limited-autonomy positions.