Economic and Wage Commission 1925-26 (UG 14/1926)

Literature › Primary sources

Kind	commission or official report
Producer	Union Government
Coverage	1925-1926
Works using it	2

Debates

Debate	Works
Cheap labour thesis and the function of the reserves	4
Liberal vs revisionist: was apartheid functional or dysfunctional for capitalist growth?	4
Pre-Union colonial economy, the mineral revolution and the South African War	3
Did the apartheid economy fail? Growth, productivity, investment and the post-1970s crisis	1
The mine migrant labour system: origins, recruitment, foreign labour and stabilisation	1
Resistance and liberation movements	1

Works using this source

Work	As cited	Period	How used
Posel (1983)	Economic and Wage Commission of 1926 (UG 14/1926)	1926	Cited to show that full proletarianisation and detribalised urban Africans were already evident in the 1920s.
Van Schoor (1986)	Economic and Wage Commission, U.G. 1926	1926	Quoted to show white artisan wages depend on masses of lowly paid native labour.