Native Farm Labour Committee 1937-39

Literature › Primary sources

Kind	commission or official report
Producer	Union of South Africa
Coverage	1937-1939
Works using it	4

Debates

Debate	Works
Farm labour: mechanisation, labour shedding, wages and labour control	4
Agricultural policy, productivity, farm size and land reform	2
Data reliability and econometric method	2
Agrarian transition to capitalism and the fate of the African peasantry	1
The state and capital: instrumentalism, autonomy and fractions of capital	1

Works using this source

Work	As cited	Period	How used
Bradford (1990)	Report of the Native Farm Labour Committee, 1937-39 (Pretoria, 1939)	1937-1939	Supports claim that large or financially strong farmers did not experience labour shortages in the late 1930s.
Mazower (1990)	Report of the Native Farm Labour Committee 1937-39	1937-1939	Cited for causes of farm labour desertion (young kraal members, domestic employment) and state policy placing onus on farmers.
Simkins (1984a)	Report of the Native Farm Labour Committee 1937-39, Pretoria, 1939	1937-1939	Documents the farm labour shortage and supplies illustrative family incomes in cash and kind, from which the 1937 baseline income per head is built.
Simkins (1984b)	Report of the Native Farm Labour Committee 1937-39 (Pretoria, 1939)	1937-1939	Documents farm labour shortage and provides illustrative family cash-and-kind incomes used to estimate prewar per capita income.