Reconstruction Committee of the Department of Agriculture and Forestry¶


Kind	commission or official report
Producer	Department of Agriculture and Forestry
Coverage	1943-1945
Works using it	4

Debates¶

Debate	Works
Agricultural policy, productivity, farm size and land reform	3
Agrarian transition to capitalism and the fate of the African peasantry	1
The job colour bar, white labour and its erosion	1
Farm labour: mechanisation, labour shedding, wages and labour control	1
Homelands, separate development, decentralisation and removals	1
Industrialisation, protection and industrial structure	1
The mine migrant labour system: origins, recruitment, foreign labour and stabilisation	1
The state and capital: instrumentalism, autonomy and fractions of capital	1
Racial wage gaps, wage convergence and wage determination	1

Work	As cited	Period	How used
Bradford (1990)	Report of the Reconstruction Committee of the Department of Agriculture and Forestry (Pretoria, 1944-5)	1944-1945	Quoted for the finding that the large majority of farmers do not aspire to money-making.
Delius and Schirmer (2000)	Report of the Reconstruction Committee of the Department of Agriculture and Forestry (Reconstruction of Agriculture, 1944)	1944 (report 1943)	Provides figures on subsidies and bull inspections, and shows the Viljoen report's populist, pro-assistance stance.
Houghton and Dagut (1973)	Reconstruction Committee of the Department of Agriculture, Reconstruction of Agriculture 1944-5	1943	Documents farmers' economic disabilities and state measures of research and erosion control.
Schirmer (1999)	Reconstruction of Agriculture: Report of the Reconstruction Committee of the Department of Agriculture and Forestry (1944); Third Interim Report of the Industrial and Agricultural Requirements Commission (1941)	1941-1944	Shows wartime reconstruction planning and Department officials' retreat to populist aims.