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Transvaal Labour Commission

Literature › Primary sources

Kind commission or official report
Producer Transvaal Labour Commission
Coverage 1903-1905
Works using it 2

Debates

Debate Works
The mine migrant labour system: origins, recruitment, foreign labour and stabilisation 1
The state and capital: instrumentalism, autonomy and fractions of capital 1
Worker consciousness, strikes and conflict on the mines and shop floor 1

Works using this source

Work As cited Period How used
Jeeves (1975b) Report of the Transvaal Labour Commission, 1903 (TLC) and Secretary of the Transvaal Labour Commission Archive (TAD) 1903 Witness evidence on African unwillingness to work, compound conditions, mortality, labour touts, and WNLA recruiting.
McNamara (1985) Transvaal Labour Commission 1905 conclusions (via 14th CMAR for 1903) 1905 Cited to show Black farmers were not compelled to take mine wages early in the century.