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Debate Works
Sanctions, disinvestment and the anti-apartheid movement 6
The mine migrant labour system: origins, recruitment, foreign labour and stabilisation 4
Agricultural policy, productivity, farm size and land reform 2
Cheap labour thesis and the function of the reserves 2
Resistance and liberation movements 2
The state and capital: instrumentalism, autonomy and fractions of capital 2
Census, race classification and demographic data 1
Finance, capital flight, the 1985 debt crisis and banking 1
Why apartheid ended: reform, transition and elite bargaining 1
Farm labour: mechanisation, labour shedding, wages and labour control 1
Historiographical approaches 1
Industrialisation, protection and industrial structure 1
Influx control, pass laws and African urbanisation 1
Liberal vs revisionist: was apartheid functional or dysfunctional for capitalist growth? 1
Data reliability and econometric method 1
Black trade unions: growth, wage effects, Wiehahn and strategy 1
Worker consciousness, strikes and conflict on the mines and shop floor 1

Works using this source

Work As cited Period How used
(organiser) et al. (2008) Swiss SECO debt relief programme figures (bilateral programme, conversion funds, relief value) 1991-2007 Bernasconi uses programme cost and relief figures to document Swiss debt relief policy.
(organiser) et al. (2008) UNCTAD paper by Professor Howse on creditor shared responsibility / Norwegian debt cancellation c. 2007 Cited as a second policy paper in which political interests advance different criteria of illegitimacy.
Bozzoli (1975) Dominions Royal Commission final report, Cd. 8462 (London, 1917) 1917 Cited as evidence that British imperial opinion had begun to favour South African manufacturing.
Chirwa (1996) Government of Malawi and United Nations, Malawi: situation analysis of poverty (Lilongwe, 1993) 1979-1993 Source for growth in the number of estates, falling average estate size, tenant numbers and unemployment commentary.
Christopher (1994a) Cervenka (1968) quoting OAU 1967 resolution 1963-1967 Quoted OAU resolution showing the diplomatic isolation policy.
Christopher (2002a) Malaya 1932, A report on the 1931 census 1931 Comparative colonial example of the difficulty of defining race for census purposes.
Crush and Namasasu (1985) Colonial Annual Report 1950 and 1957 (Basutoland) 1950, 1957 Quoted to show colonial forestry aims and the slow progress in coercing chiefs and people to plant trees.
Crush and Namasasu (1985) Government of Lesotho, Third Five Year Development Plan 1980-1985 1978-1980 Supplies the livestock unit conversion factors, the share of mine labour and male labour force, and the share of households with migrants.
Crush and Namasasu (1985) Heywood (1908), Report on forestry in Basutoland; Brown (1947); Miller (1943); Henry (1964); Poynton (1966) forestry reports 1908-1966 Used to document colonial feasibility studies, tree-planting aims and proposals for village woodlots.
Crush and Namasasu (1985) ILO (1979), Options for a dependent economy 1979 Provides poverty estimates against a basic needs income and a quote on farmers' unwillingness to preserve conservation structures.
Davenport (1969) Report of the East Africa Royal Commission, 1953-1955, Cmd. 9745 1953-1955 Comparative evidence that East African policy rejected influx control, set against South Africa's course.
Davenport (1969) Southern Rhodesia, Report of the Urban African Affairs Commission, 1958 (Plewman Report) 1958 Comparative case showing Southern Rhodesia questioned its urban assumptions and rejected influx control.
Gibson (1988) South Africa: Time Running Out (Foreign Policy Study Foundation report, 1981) 1981 Cited for Marxist leanings of BC prisoners on Robben Island and exiles.
Gould (1981) ILO Thirteenth and Fifteenth Special Reports of the Director-General on apartheid (1977, 1979) and Addendum to Sixteenth (1980) 1976-1980 Supplies data on strikes in 1977, wage gaps, banning orders and Soweto.
Halpern (2004) US Department of Commerce, The Cane Sugar Industry: Agricultural, Manufacturing, and Market Costs in Hawaii, Porto Rico, Louisiana, and Cuba, Misc. Series No. 53 (1917) 1917 Supports Louisiana's backward technology and cost disadvantage relative to competitors.
Higginson (1992) Report of the Chief Native Commissioner for the Year 1935, 'Comparative Statement of Average Number of Natives in Industrial Employment, 1934 and 1935' 1934-1935 Source for the counts of skilled African mine workers (machinists, drillmen, hammer boys, trammers) by district around Bulawayo.
Holland (1989) Netherlands Government, Memorandum on Measures in Respect of South Africa (11 June 1985) 1985 Documents the Dutch proposals to add legal competence to the Code that were not adopted.
Jeeves (1987) Report of the Commission on Medical Administration in the Bechuanaland Protectorate, 1947, and Report of Sir Walter Johnson, July 1937 1937; 1947 Support for Chamber medical grants and for high rates of TB and syphilis among mine workers.
Lucas (1987a) International Labour Organization (1962) Report on Portuguese observance of the Abolition of Forced Labour Convention 1950s-1962 Documents continued forced labor for 'vagrants' through the 1950s, supporting the forced-registration dummy variable.
Minter (1986) House Foreign Affairs Africa Subcommittee study, March 1982 1982 Cited on the weakness of U.S. arms embargo enforcement.
Minter (1986) South African Digest (Pretoria), 24 July 1961; Senator Dick Clark, U.S. Corporate Interests in Africa (Senate Foreign Relations Committee Print, 1978) 1960-1976 Documents IMF and bank lending resuming after Sharpeville and Soweto repression.
Pankhurst (1996) Godlonton Commission Report (Rhodesia) 1950s Used as the Rhodesian counterpart to the Tomlinson Report; its recommendations underpinned Land Husbandry policy.
Rich (1990) South Africa: The Sanctions Mission: Report of the Eminent Church Persons Group (World Council of Churches / Zed Books, 1989) 1989 The reviewed report is quoted for the motivation of the church group's tour of western capitals and for the positions of the Swiss and West German churches.
Rodman (1995b) U.S. Department of State, Report to Congress on Industrialized Democracies' Relations with and Measures Against South Africa (12 May 1987) 1987 Documents that EEC measures were weaker than U.S. sanctions, limiting multilateral support.
Williams (1996) Swynnerton Report, A Plan to Intensify the Development of African Agriculture in Kenya (Nairobi, 1954) 1954 Used as the Kenyan parallel to Tomlinson and as model for the Bank's 'yeomen farmer' approach.