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Mining Industry Commission/Board 1922

Literature › Primary sources

Kind commission or official report
Producer Union Government
Coverage 1922-1925
Works using it 2

Debates

Debate Works
Pre-Union colonial economy, the mineral revolution and the South African War 2
Agrarian transition to capitalism and the fate of the African peasantry 1
Cheap labour thesis and the function of the reserves 1
Liberal vs revisionist: was apartheid functional or dysfunctional for capitalist growth? 1

Works using this source

Work As cited Period How used
Brookes (1924) Mining Industry Commission (Union), 1922; Martial Law Judicial Commission 1922 1922 Mining Industry Commission discussed and dismissed as resting on rigid postulates; Martial Law Commission cited on communist propaganda.
De Kiewiet (1941) Report of the Mining Industry Board (1922) and 1925 commission on mining 1922-1925 Used to show that economy and cheap native labour were held to underlie white employment on the mines.