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Producer ILO
Coverage 1962-1998
Works using it 8

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Debates

Debate Works
The mine migrant labour system: origins, recruitment, foreign labour and stabilisation 4
Cheap labour thesis and the function of the reserves 2
Unemployment: causes, measurement and labour market institutions 2
Homelands, separate development, decentralisation and removals 1
Influx control, pass laws and African urbanisation 1
Post-apartheid economic policy, governance and corruption 1
Black trade unions: growth, wage effects, Wiehahn and strategy 1

Works using this source

Work As cited Period How used
Crush and Wellings (1983) International Labour Office, Options for a Dependent Economy: development, employment and equity problems in Lesotho (Addis Ababa, 1979) 1978 Supports household income (81% under M600) to argue gambling expenditure comes at the expense of basic needs.
Hindson (1978) ILO, Employment, Incomes and Equality: A Strategy for Increasing Productive Employment in Kenya (1972) 1972 Cited for the finding that informal sectors elsewhere in Africa employ many people at incomes often above rural levels.
Kanyenze (2004) ILO/SAMAT (1998) Policy Paper on undocumented migration estimates, wages, displacement and health 1990s Cited for estimates of undocumented migrants, wage comparisons, displacement of South African labour after 1987, and occupational health problems.
Kingdon and Knight (1999) ILO (1996) Restructuring the Labour Market: The South African Challenge, ILO Country Review 1996 Source of the claim that the broad unemployment definition exaggerates unemployment, which the paper tests; also source of institutional coverage data.
Kok et al. (2006) ILO (1998) Labour Migration to South Africa in the 1990s 1982–1998 Used for mine workforce composition, cross-border traffic and costs of migrant labour system.
Lucas (1987b) ILO (1962) Report Concerning the Observance by the Government of Portugal of the Abolition of Forced Labour Convention 1950s-1962 Documents continued forced labor in Mozambique during the 1950s.
Maller (1994) Evidence submitted to the ILO Fact-Finding Commission on Freedom of Association (Table 1, union penetration by sector) February 1991 Table showing percentage of workforce unionised by sector, supporting claims about union strength and uneven penetration.
Murray (1980) E. Gordon, The Women Left Behind: wives of migrant workers of Lesotho (ILO, Dec 1978) 1978 Used to show that the view that families have adjusted to migration is taken seriously in ILO-funded research.