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Coverage 1944-1948
Works using it 18

Debates

Debate Works
Liberal vs revisionist: was apartheid functional or dysfunctional for capitalist growth? 6
Industrialisation, protection and industrial structure 4
Agricultural policy, productivity, farm size and land reform 3
The job colour bar, white labour and its erosion 3
Did the apartheid economy fail? Growth, productivity, investment and the post-1970s crisis 3
Farm labour: mechanisation, labour shedding, wages and labour control 3
The mine migrant labour system: origins, recruitment, foreign labour and stabilisation 3
Origins, coherence and ideology of apartheid and Afrikaner nationalism 3
Urban segregation, Group Areas and the apartheid city 3
Homelands, separate development, decentralisation and removals 2
Unemployment: causes, measurement and labour market institutions 2
Racial wage gaps, wage convergence and wage determination 2
Agrarian transition to capitalism and the fate of the African peasantry 1
Cheap labour thesis and the function of the reserves 1
Historiographical approaches 1
Data reliability and econometric method 1
Sanctions, disinvestment and the anti-apartheid movement 1
Living standards, health and social policy 1

Works using this source

Work As cited Period How used
Cobley (2007) Social and Economic Planning Council and Industrial and Agricultural Requirements Council (wartime planning bodies, with the Wage Boards) 1940s The reviewer reports that Nattrass's chapter cites these bodies as agents of wartime economic planning and reform. The review does not say what records the chapter uses.
Crankshaw (1990) Social and Economic Planning Council Report No.10 (U.G. 37-46) 1946 Cited for severe cyclical fluctuations in the building industry as a cause of low investment.
Delius and Schirmer (2000) Report No. 4 of the Social and Economic Planning Council: The Future of Farming in South Africa (1945) 1945 Supports the claim that the agricultural sector was uncompetitive and absorbed state revenue without a productivity return.
Delius and Schirmer (2000) Report No. 9 of the Social and Economic Planning Council (1946), on the African Reserves 1946 Shows the Council's critique of narrow technical approaches and its proposals for urban centres in the reserves.
Duncan (1993) UG 9-1943 SEPC Report No.1 and UG 14-1944 Social Security Committee Report / SEPC Report No.2 1943-1944 Source for planners' social security proposals and cost figures against which government legislation is judged.
Houghton and Dagut (1973) Social and Economic Planning Council Reports No. 12 (1948) and No. 9 (1946) 1946-1948 Narrates currency and banking history from 1920 to 1932 and analyses migratory labour and the Reserves.
Knight (1976a) Social and Economic Planning Council report (1946) 1946 Qualitative corroboration that reserves were overpopulated.
Knight (1976b) Social and Economic Planning Council report (1946) 1946 Cited as concluding that many reserves are overpopulated, corroborating the statistical picture.
Legassick (1974) Social and Economic Planning Council, Report No 9, The Native Reserves and Their Place in the Economy of South Africa (UG 32-1946) 1946 Cited for proposals to locate industries in the reserves.
Mabin (1990) Social and Economic Planning Council Report No. 5: Regional and Town Planning, UG.34-1944 1944 Shows planners' conception of racially separate neighbourhoods separated by green belts as foundation of later group areas planning.
Mabin (1992) Social and Economic Planning Council Report No. 5: Regional and Town Planning, UG.34-1944 1944 Establishes the planning rationale for racially separated, buffered neighbourhoods.
Moll (1991b) Social and Economic Planning Council, Economic Aspects of the Gold Mining Industry (Report II, UG32/48), p. 51 1948 Cited as evidence that devaluation was felt to be inflationary and ineffective, explaining policy reluctance.
Moll (1991c) Social and Economic Planning Council, Economic Aspects of the Gold Mining Industry (Report II, UG32/48) 1948 Cited for the contemporary view that devaluation would be inflationary and ineffective.
Moll (1991d) Social and Economic Planning Council, Economic Aspects of the Gold Mining Industry (Report II, UG32/48), p. 51 1948 Cited as evidence that policy-makers felt devaluation would be inflationary and ineffective.
Parnell and Mabin (1995) Social and Economic Planning Council Report No. 5: Regional and Town Planning, UG 34-1944 1944 Shows official endorsement of planned neighbourhoods separated by green belts, linking modernist planning to segregation.
Rex (1975) Social and Economic Planning Council Report No. 9 late 1940s Cited as an early official record of a crisis in the reserves, used to question attributing recent black wage movements to a new reserve labour crisis.
Schirmer (1999) Social and Economic Planning Council, Report No. 4: The Future of Farming in South Africa (1945) 1937-1940 data, published 1945 Supplies the international yield and productivity comparisons and estimates of the cost of price support and transfers.
Schirmer (2004) Social and Economic Planning Council (1944) 1944 Cited with the 1941 commission as keeping alive the idea that mechanisation could radically reduce labour requirements.
Simkins (1981) Social and Economic Planning Council, Report No. 9, The Native Reserves and their Place in the Economy of the Union of South Africa, UG 32/46 1946 (data for 1916, 1936, 1939) Supplies district populations and land areas for the cross-section regressions and cattle distribution data.