Department of Labour annual reports¶


Kind	commission or official report
Producer	Department of Labour
Coverage	1933-1952
Works using it	3

Debates¶

Debate	Works
Cheap labour thesis and the function of the reserves	2
The job colour bar, white labour and its erosion	2
The state and capital: instrumentalism, autonomy and fractions of capital	2
Liberal vs revisionist: was apartheid functional or dysfunctional for capitalist growth?	1
Unemployment: causes, measurement and labour market institutions	1
Racial wage gaps, wage convergence and wage determination	1
Worker consciousness, strikes and conflict on the mines and shop floor	1

Work	As cited	Period	How used
Duncan (1990a)	Department of Labour Annual Reports (U.G. 30-38 for 1937; U.G. 45-41 for 1940)	1937, 1940	Supplies official statements of departmental policy and the Secretary for Labour's views on factory inspection, union criticism, regulation and the non-discrimination principle.
Sitas et al. (1984)	Report of the Department of Labour, U.G. 11/1936	1936	Cited for the 1934 Wage Board investigation of the garment trades and Durban piecework competition.
Spandau (1972)	U.G. No. 30-1938, Report of the Department of Labour for the Year ended 31st December, 1937	1937	Evidence of growing social concern for unskilled wages in the Wage Board's 1936-49 period.
Spandau (1972)	U.G. No. 43-1934, Report of the Department of Labour for the Year ended 31st December, 1933	1933	Documents the Fair Wage Clause for government contractors as a civilized labour instrument.
Spandau (1972)	U.G. No. 45-1941, Report of the Department of Labour for the Year ended 31st December, 1940	1940	Quotes Wage Board criticism of the cost-of-living principle in the 1937 Wage Act.
Spandau (1972)	U.G. No. 46-1954, Report of the Department of Labour for the Year ended 31st December, 1952	1938-1950	Shows the skilled/unskilled wage gap narrowed from 18 to 23 per cent between 1938 and 1950, contradicting Pursell.