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Native Laws (Fagan) Commission 1946-48, UG 28/1948

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Kind commission or official report
Producer Native Laws Commission
Coverage 1946-1948
Works using it 18

Debates

Debate Works
Origins, coherence and ideology of apartheid and Afrikaner nationalism 8
Cheap labour thesis and the function of the reserves 6
Liberal vs revisionist: was apartheid functional or dysfunctional for capitalist growth? 6
Influx control, pass laws and African urbanisation 5
The state and capital: instrumentalism, autonomy and fractions of capital 4
The job colour bar, white labour and its erosion 3
The mine migrant labour system: origins, recruitment, foreign labour and stabilisation 3
Did the apartheid economy fail? Growth, productivity, investment and the post-1970s crisis 2
Industrialisation, protection and industrial structure 2
Agricultural policy, productivity, farm size and land reform 1
Pre-Union colonial economy, the mineral revolution and the South African War 1
Why apartheid ended: reform, transition and elite bargaining 1
Farm labour: mechanisation, labour shedding, wages and labour control 1
Historiographical approaches 1
Homelands, separate development, decentralisation and removals 1
Data reliability and econometric method 1
Urban segregation, Group Areas and the apartheid city 1
Racial wage gaps, wage convergence and wage determination 1

Works using this source

Work As cited Period How used
Bonner and Shapiro (1987) Native Laws (Fagan) Commission 1947 minutes of evidence (CPSA Archives, Vol. 44), Chamber of Mines representative 1947 Quoted to show coal mines accept family settlement because they cannot get migrants.
Carter (1958) Fagan Report (Native Laws Commission, 1948) 1948 Cited for the finding that more than half the Africans live outside the Reserves.
Christopher (1994b) 1948 United Party government commission of enquiry on urban Blacks 1948 Cited to show that official opinion recognized Blacks as a permanent part of the urban population.
Davenport (1969) Report of the Native Laws Commission, 1946-1948 (Fagan), UG 28-1948 1946-1948 Shows continued official criticism of migrant labour and pass laws just before the 1948 Nationalist government.
Davies et al. (1976) Fagan Commission Report (Native Laws Commission) 1946-1948 Used to show the UP's ambivalence on migrant labour and stabilisation.
Evans (1997) Report of the Native Laws (Fagan) Commission, UG 28/1948 1946–1948 Establishes the liberal urban policy on stabilization and labor bureaus and the critique of municipal fragmentation that the DNA later drew on.
Freund (2012) Native Laws (Fagan) Commission Report, UG 28/1948 1948 Quoted to show even the United Party's most liberal commission rejected assimilation of races.
Houghton and Dagut (1973) Native Laws Commission (Fagan) 1948, U.G. 28/1948 and Tomlinson Commission Summary 1955, U.G. 61/1955 1948-1955 Evidence and projections on migratory labour, urbanisation and development of Bantu areas.
Jeeves and Crush (1992) Evidence of William Gemmill to the Native Laws (Fagan) Commission, Wits AD 1756 1940s Quoted to show Chamber's claim that workers did not want families on the mines.
Legassick (1974) Report of the Native Laws Commission, 1946-48 (Fagan Commission), UG 28 of 1948 1946-48 Establishes the United Party's 1948 platform on migrancy, urbanization, pass-law regulation, labour bureaux and class differentiation, which is compared with the Nationalist platform.
Maylam (1995) Reports of the 1935 Young-Barrett Committee and the 1946-1948 Fagan Commission 1935; 1946-1948 Cited as expressing the liberal agenda of class-differentiated housing for Africans.
Mazower (1990) Fagan Commission (Native Laws Commission of Enquiry) Minutes of Evidence, UCT Manuscripts BC 630 1946-1948 Supplies farmer testimony on labour shortage, failed attempts at full-time service, and views on pass control and identification.
Posel (1983) Fagan Commission (as discussed via Wolpe 1972) 1946-1948 Treated as the basis of the United Party's reformist 1948 platform, evidence of an alternative capitalist policy route to apartheid.
Savage (1984) Report of the Native Laws (Fagan) Commission 1946-8 1946-48 Evidence on the permanence of urban Africans and the alternative policy of stabilization rejected after 1948.
Savage (1986) Report of the Native Laws Commission 1946-48 (Fagan Commission), U.G.28, 1948 1946-48 Used to show the official recognition of permanent urbanisation before 1948.
Simons (1956) Native Laws Commission 1946-8 recommendation on identity cards, and SAIRR recommendation 1948 Used to show that the 1952 Act went against the recommendations of both bodies.
Torchia (1988) Report of the Native Laws Commission of Inquiry (U.G. 28/1948) 1948 Evidence of the engineering federation's early 1948 testimony against migrancy and on the cost of urbanisation as an obstacle to ending influx control.
Trapido (1970) Smit Report and Fagan Commission c. 1942-48 Cited as evidence that by 1945 non-Afrikaner industry and commerce favoured a more stable African labour force.