Riekert Commission Report and White Paper (Legislation Affecting the Utilisation of Manpower), RP 32/1979¶

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Kind	commission or official report
Producer	Riekert Commission
Coverage	1977-1979
Works using it	21

Debates¶

Debate	Works
Liberal vs revisionist: was apartheid functional or dysfunctional for capitalist growth?	7
Why apartheid ended: reform, transition and elite bargaining	6
Influx control, pass laws and African urbanisation	6
Black trade unions: growth, wage effects, Wiehahn and strategy	6
Racial wage gaps, wage convergence and wage determination	5
Cheap labour thesis and the function of the reserves	4
Homelands, separate development, decentralisation and removals	4
Agrarian transition to capitalism and the fate of the African peasantry	3
Coloured Labour Preference policy in the Western Cape	3
Resistance and liberation movements	3
Sanctions, disinvestment and the anti-apartheid movement	3
The job colour bar, white labour and its erosion	2
Education, Bantu Education and skills	1
White electoral politics, delimitation and party systems	1
Data reliability and econometric method	1
The mine migrant labour system: origins, recruitment, foreign labour and stabilisation	1

Works using this source¶

Work	As cited	Period	How used
(ed.) et al. (1983)	Riekert Commission Report, RP 32/1979 (White Paper on the Report of the Commission of Inquiry into Legislation Affecting the Utilisation of Manpower)	1979	Quoted to show the Commission's view that the Western Cape labour policy rested on non-economic grounds.
Bekker and Coetzee (1980)	Riekert Commission report, RP 32/1979 (Commission of Inquiry into Legislation Affecting the Utilisation of Manpower)	1979	Documents the Standing Committee measures, the 1966 labour regulation and the buffer zone, and provides evidence on employer preferences.
Gould (1981)	Riekert Commission Report on Legislation Affecting the Utilisation of Manpower (1978)	1978	Establishes recommendations on influx control, Section 10 rights, 72-hour rule and employer penalties for illegal workers.
Greenberg (1983)	Riekert Commission report (Commission of Inquiry into Legislation Affecting the Utilisation of Manpower), as analysed by P.J. van der Merwe	1979	Used via van der Merwe's analysis to show the free-market belief and the 'market failure' concept justifying state control of labor markets.
Hindson (1987)	Riekert Commission Report of 1979	1979	Reviewed as the reform blueprint whose impact on the Administration Boards is assessed by Bekker and Humphries, and which advocated racially segregated local government.
Johnson (1982)	Rickert Commission report, 1979 (reported in Economist 6/21/80)	1979	Indicates the share of the African male workforce lacking functional literacy.
Lemon (1982)	Riekert Commission on Manpower Utilization and 1980 influx control regulations (via Survey of Race Relations 1980)	1979-1980	Shows government acceptance of Riekert's mobility recommendations while failing to approve multiracial trade areas.
Lemon (1984a)	Riekert Commission Report (Commission of Enquiry into Legislation Affecting the Utilisation of Manpower), RP32/1979	1979	Supplies the official statement of government labour-market objectives and doubt about commuters acquiring Section 10(1)b rights.
Lemon (1984a)	White Paper on the Riekert Report, WP T/1979	1979	Documents the government's concessions on family rights, job mobility and transfer of Section 10 rights, and the new condition of non-availability of local workseekers.
Lemon (1984b)	Report of the Commission of Enquiry into Legislation Affecting the Utilisation of Manpower (Riekert Commission), RP32/1979	1979	Establishes the stated government objectives in the labor market and doubts about whether frontier commuters can qualify for Section 10(1)b rights.
Lemon (1984b)	White Paper on the Report of the Commission of Enquiry into Legislation Affecting the Utilization of Manpower, WP T/1979	1979	Documents the government's concessions on family rights, job mobility and transfer of Section 10 rights, which underpin the claim of widening insider/outsider gap.
Lemon (1984c)	Report of the Commission of Enquiry into Legislation Affecting the Utilisation of Manpower (Riekert Commission), RP32/1979	1979	Supplies the stated government objectives in the labor market and the doubt about whether frontier commuters can acquire Section 10(1)b rights.
Lemon (1984c)	White Paper on Report of the Commission of Enquiry into Legislation Affecting the Utilization of Manpower, WP T/1979	1979	Establishes the government's concessions on family rights, job mobility and transfer of Section 10 rights, and the new condition of non-availability of local workseekers.
Pickles (1988a)	Report of the Commission of Inquiry into Legislation Affecting the Utilization of Manpower (Riekert Report), 1979	1979	Establishes the Commission's findings on labour market failures and its recommendations on influx control and labour mobility, which anchor the argument about policy change.
Pickles (1988a)	White Paper on the Report of the Commission of Inquiry into Legislation Affecting the Utilization of Manpower, 1979	1979	Shows the government accepted the Riekert conclusions and retained influx control, changing only the mechanism.
Pickles (1988b)	Report of the Commission of Inquiry into Legislation Affecting the Utilization of Manpower (Riekert Report), 1979	1979	Source for the Commission's findings on labour market failures and its recommendations on influx control, which anchor the argument about restructured regional policy.
Pickles (1988b)	White Paper on the Report of the Commission of Inquiry into Legislation Affecting the Utilization of Manpower, 1979	1979	Shows the government accepted the Riekert conclusions and that the issue was the mechanism of influx control, not whether to have it.
Savage (1984)	Riekert Commission report (Commission of Inquiry into Legislation Affecting the Utilization of Manpower, RP 32/1979)	1979	Evidence of current reform direction: efficient influx controls plus privileges for urban insiders, and recommendations on housing/employment-based control.
Savage (1986)	Report of the Commission of Inquiry into Legislation Affecting the Utilization of Manpower (Riekert Commission), R.P. 32/1979	1979	Used for policy shifts toward tying urban entry to housing and jobs and repatriation grounds.
Siebert (1987a)	Riekert Commission (1979), Report of the Commission of Inquiry into Legislation Affecting the Utilization of Manpower, RP 32	1979	Source for rural/urban labour numbers, farm employment, pass law definitions, evasion, mine contract lengths and the gold price explanation of wage rises.
Siebert (1987b)	Riekert Commission (1979), Report of the Commission of Inquiry into Legislation Affecting the Utilization of Manpower, RP 32	1979	Used for labour bureau and pass law descriptions, farm workers, evasion, contract lengths, definition of pass law offences, and the proposed gold price explanation.
Siebert (1987c)	Riekert Commission (1979), Report of the Commission of Inquiry into Legislation Affecting the Utilization of Manpower, RP 32	1979	Used for the gold-price explanation, labour market structure, farm employment counts, evasion of pass laws, contract lengths, and pass law definition.
Swilling (1985a)	Commission of Inquiry into Legislation Affecting the Utilisation of Manpower (Riekert Commission)	late 1970s	Characterised as the reformist policy that recommended permanent urban rights for urban Blacks; cited from memory of its contents, not from the report itself.
Swilling (1985b)	Commission of Inquiry into Legislation Affecting the Utilisation of Manpower (Riekert Commission)	late 1970s	Described as the source of the state's urban reform policy to give urban Blacks permanent residence rights.
West (1982)	White Paper on the Report of the Commission of Inquiry into Legislation affecting the Utilisation of Manpower (Riekert)	c.1979	Cited to show that even the Riekert Commission found no economic grounds for the Coloured labour preference policy.
Zunes (1999)	Report of the Commission of Inquiry into Legislation Affecting the Utilisation of Manpower (Riekert Commission Report) and accompanying white paper, 1979	1979	Shows the state acknowledged a permanent black urban labour force and its own vulnerability to strikes and non-violent disruption.