Industrial Commission of Inquiry, ZAR 1897

Literature › Primary sources

Kind	commission or official report
Producer	South African Republic
Coverage	1897
Works using it	4

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Works using this source

Work	As cited	Period	How used
Fedderke and Simkins (2004)	1897 Industrial Commission of Enquiry into the mining industry (South African Republic), via Smith (1996)	1897	Illustrates the clash of interest between the mines and the state over concessions, rail rates and duties.
Houghton and Dagut (n.d.)	Report of the Transvaal Industrial Commission of Inquiry, 1897 (as quoted by Fitzpatrick)	1897	Quoted findings that the Government should aid the mining industry and abolish concessions.
Jeeves (1975a)	Evidence and Report of the Industrial Commission of Inquiry (Johannesburg, 1897)	1897	Testimony on low-grade mine difficulties, idle plant, labour costs, pass-law enforcement, and bribery of officials.
Lumby (1974)	Early records of Cape and Transvaal (Cape Select Committee 1883 report, Transvaal Volksraad committee 1895, Hatch and Chalmers 1895, Industrial Commission of Inquiry 1897)	1883-1897	Evidence on nineteenth-century tariff character, concessions policy, and costs of imported cement and mining stores.