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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 10

Debates

Debate Works
Cheap labour thesis and the function of the reserves 3
Liberal vs revisionist: was apartheid functional or dysfunctional for capitalist growth? 3
Agrarian transition to capitalism and the fate of the African peasantry 2
Pre-Union colonial economy, the mineral revolution and the South African War 2
Homelands, separate development, decentralisation and removals 2
The state and capital: instrumentalism, autonomy and fractions of capital 2
Agricultural policy, productivity, farm size and land reform 1
The job colour bar, white labour and its erosion 1
Did the apartheid economy fail? Growth, productivity, investment and the post-1970s crisis 1
Farm labour: mechanisation, labour shedding, wages and labour control 1
Influx control, pass laws and African urbanisation 1
Data reliability and econometric method 1
The mine migrant labour system: origins, recruitment, foreign labour and stabilisation 1
Unemployment: causes, measurement and labour market institutions 1
Black trade unions: growth, wage effects, Wiehahn and strategy 1
Living standards, health and social policy 1

Works using this source

Work As cited Period How used
Beinart (1982) Report of the Native Economic Commission 1930-1932 (U.G. 22-1932) 1930-1932 Cited on erosion and 'desert' conditions in the southern and western Transkei; wages on sugar estates.
Bell (1973) Native Economic Commission (1930-32), U.G. 22/1932; Witwatersrand Mine Natives' Wages Commission U.G. 21/1944; Social and Economic Planning Council Report No. 9, U.G. 32/1946 1932-46 Establish earlier official thinking on Reserve poverty, migrancy and absence of industrialisation proposals.
De Kiewiet (1941) Report of the Native Economic Commission, U.G. 22 of 1932 1932 Supplies evidence on native taxation burden, farm-labourer diet, rural wages, education provision and the case for developing the Reserves.
Dubow (1986) Evidence of F. Brownlee to the Native Economic Commission, Kokstad 4/11/30, K26 box 5 (PSA) 1930 Brownlee's testimony that native administration is a specialised vocation based on personal experience.
Duncan (1993) Report of the Native Economic Commission, UG 22-32 1932 Describes rural environmental degradation and disease conditions for Africans.
Giliomee and Schlemmer (1985) Native Economic Commission (1932), South African Native Affairs Commission (1903-5), Stallard Commission (1922), Beaumont Commission (1916) 1903-1932 Shows the evolving state view of the reserves' functions and their deteriorating capacity.
Knight (1976b) Report of the Native Economic Commission 1930-32 (UG 22-1932) 1930-32 Qualitative evidence of growing impoverishment, land shortage and landlessness in the reserves.
Lewis (1984b) Report of the Native Economic Commission 1930-32 (UG22-1932) 1932 Evidence on urbanised Africans, wage disparities and job fragmentation.
Posel (1983) Native Economic Commission of 1932 1932 Cited to show that the decline of the reserves had already been noted by the late 1920s, so it cannot mark a 1940s crisis.
Schirmer (1995) Native Economic Commission evidence from Lydenburg, 18 and 21 August 1930 (WHPL AD 1438/AD/438) 1930 Testimonies of farmers and tenants establish that labour tenancy was almost the only labour relationship, its variety, and tenant grievances.