Department of Labour reports¶

Literature › Primary sources


Kind	commission or official report
Producer	Department of Labour
Coverage	1937-1960
Works using it	4

Debates¶

Debate	Works
The job colour bar, white labour and its erosion	3
Did the apartheid economy fail? Growth, productivity, investment and the post-1970s crisis	2
Liberal vs revisionist: was apartheid functional or dysfunctional for capitalist growth?	2
The state and capital: instrumentalism, autonomy and fractions of capital	2
Cheap labour thesis and the function of the reserves	1

Works using this source¶

Work	As cited	Period	How used
Coupe (1995)	Department of Labour, Lab. 585(A), Report of the National Apprenticeship Board on a review of the apprenticeship system (1960), via J. Lewis	1960	Cited for the Board's decision that apprentices failing trade tests keep journeyman status.
Coupe (1995)	Department of Labour, Work Reservation, its Background, Motivation and Application (Pretoria, 1960)	1960	Official statement of the rationale of job reservation.
Crankshaw (1990)	Report of the Department of Labour for the Year Ended 31st December 1951, UG 45/1953	1951	Cited for the decline in registered apprenticeships after the Second World War.
Crankshaw (1990)	Report of the Department of Labour for the Year Ended 31st December 1960, RP6/1961	1960	Gives the number of African building workers trained under the Native Building Workers Act (almost 3000 by 1960).
Duncan (1990b)	Department of Labour Annual Reports, U.G. 30-38 (for 1937) and U.G. 45-41 (for 1940)	1937, 1940	Supplies the Secretary for Labour's statements about inspectors, regulation by delegated powers, and non-discrimination under the Factories Act.
Nattrass (1990)	Department of Labour Report for 1941 (no UG number)	1941	Evidence on the Controller of Industrial Manpower, Factories Act overtime limits and female emergency workers.
Nattrass (1990)	Department of Labour Report for 1946 (UG 62-1948)	1937-1946	Provides semi-skilled job shares in Wage Board industries and evidence of the Wage Board's shift against a 3 pound minimum wage.
Nattrass (1990)	Department of Labour Reports for 1955 (UG 21/1957) and 1954 (UG 17/1956)	1954-1955	Evidence that the Department regarded white wage growth in excess of productivity as a problem.