National Manpower Commission reports

Literature › Primary sources

Kind	commission or official report
Producer	National Manpower Commission
Coverage	1982-1991
Works using it	4

Debates

Debate	Works
Black trade unions: growth, wage effects, Wiehahn and strategy	2
Racial wage gaps, wage convergence and wage determination	2
Cheap labour thesis and the function of the reserves	1
The job colour bar, white labour and its erosion	1
Post-apartheid economic policy, governance and corruption	1

Works using this source

Work	As cited	Period	How used
Bendix (1989)	National Manpower Commission Annual Report 1987 and manpower survey of September 1986	1986-1987	Used for vacancy rates by occupation (Table 9), Industrial Court caseload and the Commission's explanation of rising black registered unemployment.
Crankshaw (1996)	Report of the National Manpower Commission on High-level Manpower in South Africa	not stated	Cited as an example of grouping managers, professionals and semi-professionals into one category.
Frost (1993)	National Manpower Commission (NMC) Annual Reports, incl. NMC 1982 and 1991 reports	1982-1991	Source of union membership figures (given primacy for 1990 Cosatu data) and statement on the 1979 extension of union rights.
Kraak (1995)	National Manpower Commission (1987) High Level and Middle Level Manpower in South Africa	1987	Cited for the claim that high-level manpower jobs were opened to Whites with low qualifications.