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Nyasaland government labour reports

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Kind commission or official report
Producer Nyasaland Government
Coverage 1916-1940
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Debates

Debate Works
The mine migrant labour system: origins, recruitment, foreign labour and stabilisation 1

Works using this source

Work As cited Period How used
Sanderson (1961) G. N. Burden, Nyasaland Native Labour in Southern Rhodesia (1938) and Nyasaland Natives in the Union of South Africa (1940) 1938-1940 Evidence on compound stores, tokens and credit, and on Nyasas entering the Union illegally.
Sanderson (1961) Pim Report, Col. No. 145 of 1938 1938 Used to compare tax rates with cash-earning capacity in Northern Rhodesia and for Katanga recruiting history.
Sanderson (1961) Report of the Commission on the Native Rising, Nyasaland, 1916 1916 Source for the tax being raised to 8s. at the outbreak of war.
Sanderson (1961) Report of the Emigrant Labour Committee (Travers Lacey Committee), Zomba, 1935 1935 Source for pass system, its evasion, Tanganyika migration, Union Miniere policy and forecasts of social effects.
Sanderson (1961) Report on Nyasaland Natives in the Union of South Africa and Southern Rhodesia, by J. C. Abraham, Zomba, 1937 1937 Source for alien workers forming two-thirds of Rhodesian employment by 1921 and Nyasa illegal entry routes.