Smit Inter-Departmental Committee on Urban Natives 1942

Literature › Primary sources

Kind	commission or official report
Producer	Inter-Departmental Committee
Coverage	1942
Works using it	2

Debates

Debate	Works
Influx control, pass laws and African urbanisation	2
Liberal vs revisionist: was apartheid functional or dysfunctional for capitalist growth?	1

Works using this source

Work	As cited	Period	How used
Davenport (1969)	Report of the Inter-Departmental Committee on the Social, Health and Economic Conditions of the Urban Natives, 1942 (Smit)	1942	Evidence of a liberal shift: acceptance of urbanisation, links of low wages to absent bargaining, pass law convictions of 300,000 in 1939-41, and call to abolish passes.
Frankel (1979)	Smit Commission (1942)	1942	Cited via Welsh for commenting that rising pass convictions strain administrative resources.