Economic and Wage Commission 1925, UG 14/1926¶

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Kind	commission or official report
Producer	Union of South Africa
Coverage	1925-1926
Works using it	7

Debates¶

Debate	Works
The job colour bar, white labour and its erosion	3
Industrialisation, protection and industrial structure	3
Agricultural policy, productivity, farm size and land reform	2
Agrarian transition to capitalism and the fate of the African peasantry	1
Cheap labour thesis and the function of the reserves	1
Homelands, separate development, decentralisation and removals	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
Racial wage gaps, wage convergence and wage determination	1

Works using this source¶

Work	As cited	Period	How used
Clark (1987)	UG 14/1926 Economic and Wages Commission; UG 21/1944 Witwatersrand Mines Native Wages Commission	1926, 1944	Cited for VFPC's refusal to raise black wages above mining levels.
Houghton and Dagut (1973)	Report of the Economic and Wage Commission, 1925, U.G. 14/1926	1925-1926	Divided commissioners' views on agriculture, the colour bar, industrial legislation, protection and the African's place in the economy.
Johnstone (1971)	Report of the Economic and Wage Commission, 1925, U.G. 14/26	1925 (data 1910-1922)	Source for the observation of an absent labour-market response to shortage, and for the index of white miners' real wages 1910-1922.
Lumby (1974)	Report of the Economic and Wage Commission, U.G.14/1926	1925-1926	Divided reports on protection and civilised labour policy used to show contemporary dissent against the government's tariff policy.
Morrell (1988)	Economic and Wages Commission 1925, evidence of J. D. Heyns	1925	Cited on cooperative membership and indirect stake of non-members in maize exports.
Nattrass and Seekings (2012a)	Report of the Economic and Wage Commission (1925), U.G. 14 of 1926	1925-1926	Documents high skilled white wages, the 'civilised wage' rationale, job losses from extending wages to small towns, and criticism of extensions.
Schirmer (1999)	Report of the Economic and Wage Commission (1925) and Report of the Committee of Enquiry re Taxation of Incomes Derived from Farming Operations (1919), via Bradford	1919, 1925	Cited, through Bradford, as showing the main motive of most farmers was to survive on the land.