Commission on Trade and Industries (Cullinan), UG 10/1912¶


Kind	commission or official report
Producer	Union of South Africa
Coverage	1910-1912
Works using it	6

Debates¶

Debate	Works
Industrialisation, protection and industrial structure	3
Did the apartheid economy fail? Growth, productivity, investment and the post-1970s crisis	2
Cheap labour thesis and the function of the reserves	1
Pre-Union colonial economy, the mineral revolution and the South African War	1
The job colour bar, white labour and its erosion	1
Farm labour: mechanisation, labour shedding, wages and labour control	1
Liberal vs revisionist: was apartheid functional or dysfunctional for capitalist growth?	1
The mine migrant labour system: origins, recruitment, foreign labour and stabilisation	1
The state and capital: instrumentalism, autonomy and fractions of capital	1
Unemployment: causes, measurement and labour market institutions	1

Work	As cited	Period	How used
Bozzoli (1975)	The Commission on Trade and Industries (Cullinan Commission), U.G. 10, 1912	1912	Shows the official response to manufacturers' lobbying: a minority report opposed to industry and a half-hearted majority report for protection.
Fedderke and Simkins (2004)	Cullinan Commission on Trade and Industries 1910-11 and Board of Trade and Industries (1945) report	1910-1945	Source of the tariff principles guiding industrial protection and the 1939 import duty rate of 14.25%.
Houghton and Dagut (n.d.)	Report of the Commission on Trade and Industries, 1912 (U.G. 10-'12)	1912	Argues for protection and includes a retail price comparison table of South Africa, Britain and the US.
Lumby (1974)	Report of the Commission on Conditions of Trade and Industries (Cullinan Commission), U.G.10/1912	1910-1912	Evidence on pre-war tariff policy, industry conditions (footwear, printing employment) and obstacles to industrialisation.
Nattrass (1976a)	Report of the Commission on Conditions of Trade and Industries UG 10-12/1912	1912	Cited for rising Johannesburg living costs and for the official view that agriculture must develop first.
Schirmer (2008)	Cullinan Commission Report (UG)	c.1912	Cited for cement/brick/pottery scale and transport-cost problems and for the tanning industry's natural advantages by 1912.