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Industrial and Agricultural Requirements (Van Eck) Commission

Literature › Primary sources

Kind commission or official report
Producer Union of South Africa
Coverage 1936-1941
Works using it 3

Debates

Debate Works
Agricultural policy, productivity, farm size and land reform 2
The job colour bar, white labour and its erosion 1
Farm labour: mechanisation, labour shedding, wages and labour control 1
Homelands, separate development, decentralisation and removals 1
Industrialisation, protection and industrial structure 1
The mine migrant labour system: origins, recruitment, foreign labour and stabilisation 1
Racial wage gaps, wage convergence and wage determination 1

Works using this source

Work As cited Period How used
Delius and Schirmer (2000) Industrial and Agricultural Requirements Commission, Third Interim Report (1941) 1941 Source for the wartime reconstruction blueprint, yield comparisons and recommendations on prices and farm plans.
Houghton and Dagut (1973) Third Interim Report of the Industrial and Agricultural Requirements Commission (van Eck), U.G. 40/1941 1936-1941 Analyses national income, occupation data (1936 census, 1936-37 earnings), the Government Mining Engineer's gold ore estimate, and the tariff and labour policy.
Schirmer (2004) Third Interim Report of the Industrial and Agricultural Requirements Commission (1941) 1941 Quoted to show wartime official advocacy of mechanisation to raise per capita output and reduce numbers on the land.