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Kind commission or official report
Producer Board of Trade and Industries
Coverage 1923-1992
Works using it 18

Debates

Debate Works
Industrialisation, protection and industrial structure 6
Liberal vs revisionist: was apartheid functional or dysfunctional for capitalist growth? 5
The job colour bar, white labour and its erosion 4
Origins, coherence and ideology of apartheid and Afrikaner nationalism 4
Homelands, separate development, decentralisation and removals 3
The state and capital: instrumentalism, autonomy and fractions of capital 3
Black trade unions: growth, wage effects, Wiehahn and strategy 3
Agricultural policy, productivity, farm size and land reform 2
Cheap labour thesis and the function of the reserves 1
Did the apartheid economy fail? Growth, productivity, investment and the post-1970s crisis 1
Why apartheid ended: reform, transition and elite bargaining 1
Influx control, pass laws and African urbanisation 1
Racial wage gaps, wage convergence and wage determination 1
Living standards, health and social policy 1

Works using this source

Work As cited Period How used
Author not named in text (MSc candidate (2012) Board of Trade and Industries reports (1926 wheat inquiry; 1939 report No. 255 on baking and prices) 1926, 1939 Show official rationales for protection and criticism of the pre-1939 baking industry.
Bell (1973) Board of Trade and Industries Report No. 282 (1945), Investigation into Manufacturing Industries 1945 Cited on decongestion, future decline of Witwatersrand gold demand and social aspects of concentration.
Bell (1986) Board of Trade and Industries report No. 303 of 1947 1947 Cited via Barker as early recognition of labour-cost-driven dispersal of clothing plants.
Davenport (1969) Report No. 282 of the Board of Trade and Industries, 1945 (Norval) 1945 Supports the claim that industrialists stressed semi-skilled African labour in manufacturing in 1942-48.
Davies et al. (1976) Board of Trade and Industries Report (1945), on the Customs Tariff Act of 1925 1945 report on 1925 Act Establishes that the 1925 Customs Tariff Act inaugurated a deliberate protection policy, as evidence of national capital's hegemony.
Davies et al. (1976) Board of Trade and Industries recommendation on African semi-skilled labour; wartime state measures WWII Supports the claim that the war drew Africans into semi-skilled industrial work while the state protected whites.
Dubb (2012) Board of Trade and Industries reports on the sugar industry (Report Nos. 66 [1926], 119 [1931], 298 [1947]; 1976 Investigation into division of proceeds) 1926-1976 Documents the structure of the regulatory framework: Sugar Act, Division of Proceeds, quotas, single-channel export, Price Stabilization Fund.
Kaplan (1989) Board of Trade and Industries, Investigation into the South African Electronics Industry, Report No. 2455 (Pretoria, 1987) 1984-1987 Used for telecommunications' share of domestic electronics production (about one-half in 1984) and its poor export performance (1.5 per cent of production).
Legassick (1974) BTI Report No 323, The Textile Manufacturing Industry, Part III (1951), and other BTI reports (No 219 on industries in Native Territories, 1936-37) 1936-1951 Used for sectoral evidence on wage reduction when replacing white female labour and for earlier decentralization proposals.
Legassick (1974) Board of Trade and Industries (BTI) Report No 282, Investigation into Manufacturing Industries in the Union of South Africa (1945) 1945 Supports the claim that the state planned mechanization based on low-paid non-European labour, an 'aristocracy of labour', and decentralization.
Lewis (1984b) Board of Trade and Industries Report No. 282, Investigation into manufacturing industries (first interim report, 1945) 1945 Evidence that government favoured reclassification of labour, operative labour and scientific management.
Lewis (1984b) Board of Trade and Industries Report No. 286, Investigation into the iron, steel, engineering and metallurgical industries (1946) 1946 Source of Tables VI-VIII on employment by race and industry 1939-45, wages of moulders, and evidence on dilution and operative grades.
Lewis (1984b) Board of Trade and Industries Report No. 303, The clothing industry (1948); Report No. 323, The textile manufacturing industry (1951); Report No. 2, footwear and tanning (1922) 1922-1951 Used for capital requirements, structure and labour force of consumer products industries and textile racial composition.
Lewis (1984b) Board of Trade and Industries Report No. 94, The engineering industry in South Africa (1929) (Bosman enquiry) 1929 Establishes the 'jobbing' character, rule-of-thumb management and restrictive labour structure of pre-war engineering and the push for mass production.
Lumby (1974) Board of Trade and Industries reports (e.g. No.51 Revision of the Customs Tariff 1925; No.282 Manufacturing Industries 1945; No.294 Leather Industry 1947; No.353 Printing Industry 1955; dumping reports Nos.8, 30, 42, 48, 60, 70, 77, 82, 84, 133) 1923-1955 Used for tariff recommendations, industry histories, dumping investigations, footwear consumption data and the critique of printing protection.
Lumby (1974) Unpublished Board of Trade and Industries reports and Department of Census and Statistics unpublished data various, 1920s-1930s Supplied details of unpublished reports and statistical series not otherwise available (e.g. cement production tonnage and prices).
Marais (1981) Board of Trade and Industries, Report No. 282: Investigation into Manufacturing Industries of the Union of South Africa, 1945 1945 Supports the forecast that gold resources would decline appreciably after 1945.
Maree (1993a) Board of Trade and Industry Report No. 2646 (1988) and BTI 1991; National Clothing Industry data; National Clothing Federation 1992 Annual Report; Sactwu News 27.01.92 1988-1992 Documents the Structural Adjustment Programme, employment losses and the Hatty Committee as meso-level corporatism.
Maree (1993b) Board of Trade and Industry (1988) Report No. 2646 and BTI (1991); National Clothing Federation reports; Sactwu News 27.01.92 1988-1992 Documents the Structural Adjustment Programme, job losses in clothing and textiles, and the Hatty Committee working group.
McCarthy (1988) Board of Trade and Industries, 'Guide to the policy and procedure relative to customs tariff protection and tariff relief' (undated brochure) undated Source of the three tenets of South African tariff protection policy.
O'Meara (1978) Board of Trade and Industries Report no. 282, Investigation into Manufacturing Industries in the Union of South Africa (1945) 1945 Documents the shift from an artisan/unskilled division of labour to semi-skilled operatives and the advocacy of cheap African operatives.
Schneider (2000) Norval [1962] A Quarter of a Century of Industrial Progress in South Africa 1927-1962 Supports ISCOR's competitiveness and the success of protection in generating white jobs and wages.
Spandau (1972) Board of Trade and Industries, Report No. 282, Investigation into Manufacturing Industries in the Union of South Africa, 1945, para. 336 1945 Supports the claim that tariff protection was expected to promote civilized labour employment.
Torchia (1988) Board of Trade and Industries, Investigation into Manufacturing Industries in the Union of South Africa (Report 282), 1945 1945 Cited to show the effect of capital deepening on demand for skilled workers was noted early.