Mining Industry Commission 1907-08

Literature › Primary sources

Kind	commission or official report
Producer	Colony of the Transvaal
Coverage	1907-1908
Works using it	3

Debates

Debate	Works
The mine migrant labour system: origins, recruitment, foreign labour and stabilisation	3
Cheap labour thesis and the function of the reserves	2
Pre-Union colonial economy, the mineral revolution and the South African War	1
The job colour bar, white labour and its erosion	1
The state and capital: instrumentalism, autonomy and fractions of capital	1

Works using this source

Work	As cited	Period	How used
Houghton and Dagut (n.d.)	Report of the Mining Industry Commission, 1907-8	1907-1908	Sets out the opposed coloured-labour and white-labour policies and the Commission's conclusion.
Jeeves (1975a)	Mining Industry Commission 1907-08, evidence of J. Reyersbach	1907-1908	Rand Mines chairman's estimate of low-grade ore yields (16s per ton vs 40s in 1897, 34s 6d in 1906); evidence of falling grade of extracted ore.
Jeeves and Crush (1992)	Evidence and Reports of the Mining Industry Commission, 1907-1908, TG 1, 2, 1908	1907-1908	Commission set up to examine Creswell's white-labour theories; its majority report was ignored by government.