Low Grade Ore Commission 1930-32

Literature › Primary sources

Kind	commission or official report
Producer	Union of South Africa
Coverage	1930-1932
Works using it	3

Debates

Debate	Works
Cheap labour thesis and the function of the reserves	1
The job colour bar, white labour and its erosion	1
Industrialisation, protection and industrial structure	1
The mine migrant labour system: origins, recruitment, foreign labour and stabilisation	1
Post-apartheid economic policy, governance and corruption	1
The state and capital: instrumentalism, autonomy and fractions of capital	1
Worker consciousness, strikes and conflict on the mines and shop floor	1

Works using this source

Work	As cited	Period	How used
Clark (1987)	SABA, Low Grade Ore Commission (K34), vol. 5, evidence of Bernard Price	1931	Supplies the Escom-VFPC agreed rates and cost terms (.115d vs .4418d per unit).
Moodie (2005)	Low-grade Ore Commission (LGOC) 1930 evidence, incl. SAMWU and Reich	October 1930	Union testimony that falling tonnage led mine captains and shift bosses to push workers violently; also on low-grade ore economics.
Stott (2008)	Report of the Low Grade Ore Commission, U.G. 16-1932	1932 (covering 1911-1932)	Cited (via Kaplan) for annual overseas dividend payments exceeding annual investment in gold mining, and for Chamber of Mines evidence on mining lease profit shares.