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Witwatersrand Mine Natives' Wages (Lansdown) Commission, UG 21/1944

Literature › Primary sources
Kind commission or official report
Producer Lansdown Commission
Coverage 1943-1944
Works using it 7

Debates

Debate Works
The mine migrant labour system: origins, recruitment, foreign labour and stabilisation 4
The state and capital: instrumentalism, autonomy and fractions of capital 3
Worker consciousness, strikes and conflict on the mines and shop floor 2
Agrarian transition to capitalism and the fate of the African peasantry 1
The job colour bar, white labour and its erosion 1
Black trade unions: growth, wage effects, Wiehahn and strategy 1

Works using this source

Work As cited Period How used
Budeli et al. (2008) Lansdowne Commission (1941) 1941 Cited for its advice against recognising black trade unions as communist-manipulated.
James (1987) Report of the Witwatersrand Mine Natives' Wages Commission (Lansdown Commission), U.G. 21/1944 1943-1944 Source for the Commission's sympathy with African miners' wage grievances and its recommended wage increases, which the government only partly granted.
Jeeves (1987) Report of the Commission on Mine Natives' Wages, U.G. 21-1944 (Lansdown Commission), evidence (NWC 43, VII) 1943-1944 Gemmill's 1943 testimony on health in the native territories, refuted by the Commission.
Moodie (1986) Lansdown Commission (Witwatersrand Mine Native Wages Commission) evidence, Cory Library, Rhodes University 1943 Testimony of A.G.T. Chaplin on underground union organisation and unrest in compounds in 1942.
Moodie (1986) Lansdown Commission report and resulting wage raises (1944) 1943-1944 Provided the union a yardstick for wage demands and gave rise to wage and allowance recommendations referred to in AMWU speeches.
Simkins (1981) Witwatersrand Mine Natives' Wages Commission 1943 subsistence bundle 1943 Defines the fixed family-of-five subsistence bundle against which reserve production is compared.
Yudelman and Jeeves (1986a) Report of Witwatersrand Mine Native Wages Commission, 1943 (UG 24-1944) [Lansdown Commission] 1943-44 Cited for the 'pay limit' calculations and the industry's rigidity on wages and government assistance.
Yudelman and Jeeves (1986b) Report of Witwatersrand Mine Native Wages Commission, 1943 (UG 24-1944) [Lansdown Commission] 1943-1944 Cited for the 'pay limit' and low-grade ore reserves as justification for wage rigidity.