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Native Economic Commission 1930-32, UG 22/1932

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Kind commission or official report
Producer Native Economic Commission
Coverage 1930-1932
Works using it 17

Debates

Debate Works
The mine migrant labour system: origins, recruitment, foreign labour and stabilisation 5
Agricultural policy, productivity, farm size and land reform 4
Agrarian transition to capitalism and the fate of the African peasantry 3
Cheap labour thesis and the function of the reserves 3
Farm labour: mechanisation, labour shedding, wages and labour control 3
Homelands, separate development, decentralisation and removals 3
The state and capital: instrumentalism, autonomy and fractions of capital 3
Influx control, pass laws and African urbanisation 2
Data reliability and econometric method 2
The job colour bar, white labour and its erosion 1
Industrialisation, protection and industrial structure 1
Resistance and liberation movements 1
Sanctions, disinvestment and the anti-apartheid movement 1
Urban segregation, Group Areas and the apartheid city 1
Unemployment: causes, measurement and labour market institutions 1
Racial wage gaps, wage convergence and wage determination 1
Worker consciousness, strikes and conflict on the mines and shop floor 1

Works using this source

Work As cited Period How used
Bonner and Shapiro (1987) Native Economic Commission 1931-2 evidence (CPSA Archives): replies to questionnaires by Assistant Native Commissioner Graskop, Lydenburg Magistrate, Zoutpansberg 1931-1932 Supports claims on clandestine immigration, the length of time to work off tickets and women in the compounds.
Davenport (1969) Report of the Native Economic Commission, 1930-1932 (Holloway), UG 22-1932 1930-1932 Shows the Commission retained existing urban restrictions but declined to propose more.
Delius and Schirmer (2000) Report of the Native Economic Commission 1930-1932 1930-1932 Shows the official diagnosis of overstocking and erosion in the reserves, and is criticised for the thin evidence behind its predictions.
Edgecombe (1987) Native Economic Commission 1930-32 evidence (K26, vols 4 and 9), Central Archives Depot 1930-1931 Witness testimony on beer quality, indebtedness and compulsion in the token system, and on labour requirements of the gold mines.
Higginson (1992) Native Economic Commission (South Africa) hearings and testimonies, 1931-32 (Durban, Capetown, Johannesburg, Pietermaritzburg) 1930-1932 Testimony of Africans, welfare-society officials and union leaders supplies evidence on pass riots, dock work, wages, rents and the changing urban labour force.
Houghton and Dagut (1973) Report of the Native Economic Commission, 1932, U.G. 22/1932 1932 Describes the economy of the Reserves, overstocking and erosion on the basis of commissioners' observations.
Jeeves (1987) Archive of the Native Economic Commission, 1930-2 (K26) evidence 1930-1932 Evidence by mine managers and others on the AVS and on medical examination of recruits.
Katzen (1974) Native Economic Commission report, 1932 1932 Cited as the earliest origin of the Border Industries idea, through its proposals to improve and develop reserve agriculture.
Keegan (1985) U.G. 22-1932, Report of the Natives Economic Commission, 1930-32 1930-1932 Evidence of Archdeacon Hill showing the post-1913 shift from half shares to labour tenancy on a company farm.
Knight (1976a) Report of the Native Economic Commission 1930-32 (UG 22-1932) 1930-1932 Qualitative evidence of growing impoverishment, land shortage and landlessness in reserves.
Maylam (1990) Report of the Native Economic Commission, 1930-32, U.G. 22, 1932 1932 Cited as expressing official recognition of the stabilisation and permanence of urban African labour.
Morrell (1988) Native Economic Commission (1930) evidence (Kuhlmann; Bosman and Williams) 1930 Kuhlmann's testimony on labour diversion and farmers' complaints about recruiting agents.
Sabbagh (1968) Report of the Native Economic Commission (1932) and Social and Economic Planning Council Report No. 9 (1946) 1932, 1946 Cited as earlier official investigations preparing the ground for Separate Development.
Schirmer (1994) Native Economic Commission 1930, Lydenburg evidence (WHPL AD 438/AD1438), including Isaac Twale and Major D.R. Hunt 1930 Testimony that reserves were full and land in Lydenburg was attractive.
Simkins (1981) Native Economic Commission Report 1930-2 and Report of the Commission into Native Reserves 1946 (hide and skin prices) 1930-1946 Cited via Wolpe's account as part of the received view; the 1946 report supplies the 1939 hide price.
Simkins (1984a) Native Economic Commission Report 1930-32 (wage tabulations) c.1930 Cited through the Native Farm Labour Committee, which warrants treating per capita cash and kind incomes as constant from 1929 to 1939.
Simkins (1984b) Native Economic Commission Report 1930-32 wage tabulations late 1920s-1932 Via the Farm Labour Committee, used to justify constant per capita real incomes 1929-39.