Industrial Commission of Inquiry 1897

Literature › Primary sources

Kind	commission or official report
Producer	Industrial Commission of Inquiry (ZAR)
Coverage	1897
Works using it	2

Debates

Debate	Works
Why apartheid ended: reform, transition and elite bargaining	1
Influx control, pass laws and African urbanisation	1
Liberal vs revisionist: was apartheid functional or dysfunctional for capitalist growth?	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

Works using this source

Work	As cited	Period	How used
Greenberg (1987)	Industrial Commission of Inquiry testimony (Crown Reef Gold Mine), published by Witwatersrand Chamber of Mines, 1897	1897	Evidence that African mineworkers deserted in large numbers even under early compound and pass systems.
Jeeves (1975b)	Evidence and Report of the Industrial Commission of Inquiry, Johannesburg 1897 (ICI)	1897	Testimony of mining engineers, managers and officials on labour costs, low-grade difficulties, labour theft, and bribery of native commissioners.